Scotland could see wild animals such as wolves, bears, and lynxes reintroduced according to a new report. Scientists say that abandoned farmlands across Scotland, Ireland, and much of Europe ...

Wolves were eradicated from Scotland around 250 years ago, leaving red deer with no natural predators and allowing their populations to grow across the country.

Wolves roamed freely around Britain for many centuries, as chronicled by Roman and later Saxon writers, but were hunted to extinction in Scotland around 250 years ago.

There are now wolf packs happily living in far more densely populated countries than Scotland, including in France, Belgium and Germany, writes Donnachadh McCarthy ...

At the end of the last ice age, Scotland was a truly wild place, where the Highland tiger, a distinctly banded wildcat, and the wolf, lynx, and bear roamed among Caledonian pine forests.The Romans ...

The authors note, “Nilsen et al. predict that if wolves were present in Scotland for 60 years, deer densities would decline to 7/km2, with >50% reduction in some places.