This week you can DOUBLE your support for wildcat conservation by donating via the Big Give who will match your donation 🧡

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DOUBLE your donation this week and support Scottish wildcat conservation with the Big Give 🎉

You can help to save the Highland tiger from extinction by releasing more wildcats into the Cairngorms National Park. Please give today ➡ bit.ly/savingwildcats…

Our senior keeper Rachel is currently at BIAZA's Conservation Conference 🌍

She's delivered a talk about the expertise she and the rest of the animal management team use to prepare wildcats for the challenges of life in the wild 🐾

Male and female wildcats calling to one another is a common sound during their breeding season over the winter 🐾

Turn the volume up and listen to Oscar calling 🔊

One of the wildcats released last year was found to be walking some parts of the 'Wildcat Trail' behind Newtonmore. This trail is maintained by the Newtonmore Community Woodland & Development Trust, who also run the Wildcat Centre 🐾

Find out more ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/wildcatfindstr…

Learn more about wildcat restoration in Scotland! With sessions for nursery to university levels, enquire about an educational visit to Highland Wildlife Park and request a session with a member of our team 🐾

Fill out our booking form here ➡ rzss.org.uk/education/how-…

📷 Guy Roberts

THANK YOU to everyone who donates leylandii to the wildcats in our conservation breeding for release centre at Highland Wildlife Park 🌿

Embo and Torr have been enjoying the new smells and textures in their enclosure 🧡

Saving Wildcats is an evidence-based project and we take advice from international experts. One of these is Dr María Díez-León, a Senior Lecturer in Animal Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). Read more about María's role in saving the Highland tiger ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/planningandgoo…

Earlier this year our in-situ conservation manager, Dr Keri Langridge, welcomed The Mirror Environment Editor Nada Farhoud 🇱🇧🇬🇧 💚🌳🐾 for a day out in the field, tracking released wildcats. Find out more ➡ bit.ly/dailymirrorsav…

Wildcats are excellent climbers and often climb the tall trees in our off-show conservation breeding for release centre at Highland Wildlife Park 🌲🌳

Can you spot the wildcat in this photo?

We're delighted to have The Royal Family HRH The Princess Royal visit us yesterday to learn more about the work we're doing to save Scotland's wildcats 🧡

Following a tour of the project hub, HRH unveiled a plaque to commemorate the visit.

Join us at the Orkney Nature Festival on Tuesday 14 May to learn more about the project's approach to community outreach to help restore wildcats in the Cairngorms National Park 🐾

Sign up now ➡ bit.ly/savingwildcats…

Fruin is a gorgeous wildcat and we hope male wildcat Mallachie agrees! The two are paired together this breeding season with the hope they produce kittens.

Sponsor Fruin for just £5 a month to find out exclusive news about her ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/sponsor

As part of Rewilding Europe's European Rewilding Network, we're celebrating community inclusive nature restoration in the Scottish Highlands and beyond on #WorldRewildingDay .

Read more about our work ➡ bit.ly/rewildingeurop…

#HopeIntoAction

This wildcat was released last year into Cairngorms Connect and we were delighted to receive these photos of her from a member of the public 😻

If you're lucky enough to photograph a wildcat, please submit your sighting here ➡ irecord.org.uk/enter-casual-r…

📷 Debra Pickering

Droma is a feisty female wildcat that lives in our off-show conservation breeding for release centre Highland Wildlife Park. For just £5 a month, you can receive exclusive updates about her 🐾

Take a peek at the exclusive sponsor emails that we could send you ➡ bit.ly/exclusivespons…

Our field team have classified over a million camera trap images since the project began 😮

These photos help increase their understanding of the ecology of the area that released wildcats now call home. Here are a few of their favourite photos that they've tagged recently 📷

Does anyone else get annoyed when they're woken up on a Monday?

These sisters live together in our off-show conservation breeding for release centre at Highland Wildlife Park, where they're preparing for a challenging life in the wild in large and naturalistic pre-release enclosures 🐾

Happy Mother's Day to the wildcats in our off-show conservation breeding for release centre 🎉

While we're still waiting for kittens to be born this year, we're celebrating Droma, Morag, Fruin, Fian, Margaret, Torr, Skye and Nell who could potentially be mums in a few weeks 🐾

Cranachan and Margaret enjoyed winter in the off-show conservation breeding for release centre at Highland Wildlife Park 🐾

Sponsor Cranachan for only £5 a month to receive exclusive updates about him and his future offspring ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/sponsor