The missing lynx: could Britain's wildcat be returned home?

摘要

For a while in 2018 it looked as though a reintroduction of six Eurasian lynx into Kielder Forest in Northumberland for a trial five-year period might go ahead. But in November that year, and despite his own "great interest" in species reintroductions, then environment secretary Michael Gove told Dr Paul O'Donoghue, the prime mover behind the Lynx UK Trust (LUKT), he was turning it down.