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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
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    Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt
    18/09/2025. London, United Kingdom. Presidential Helicopters Depart RAF Northolt.

    Helicopters depart RAF Northolt to collect Donald Trump from Windsor for his engagements at Chequers with OM Keir Starmer on the final day of his State visit.

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
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    Prime Minister Keir Starmer troop visit with Christopher Luxon
    22/04/2025. South West, England, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a military training camp with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / eyevine

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  • Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
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    Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
    Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in Cairngorms in first phase of rewilding project.

    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park, in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
    The cats are on show in the park, and also bred in captivity at the park for release into the Cairngorms National Park.

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  • Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
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    Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
    Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in Cairngorms in first phase of rewilding project.

    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park, in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
    The cats are on show in the park, and also bred in captivity at the park for release into the Cairngorms National Park.

    © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Guardian / eyevine

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  • Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
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    Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
    Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in Cairngorms in first phase of rewilding project.

    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Sean of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park, in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
    The cats are on show in the park, and also bred in captivity at the park for release into the Cairngorms National Park.

    © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Guardian / eyevine

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  • Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
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    Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
    Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in Cairngorms in first phase of rewilding project.

    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park, in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
    The cats are on show in the park, and also bred in captivity at the park for release into the Cairngorms National Park.

    © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Guardian / eyevine

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  • Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
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    Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
    Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in Cairngorms in first phase of rewilding project.

    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park, in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
    The cats are on show in the park, and also bred in captivity at the park for release into the Cairngorms National Park.

    © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Guardian / eyevine

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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in Cairngorms in first phase of rewilding project.

    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in Cairngorms in first phase of rewilding project.

    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
    The cats are on show in the park, and also bred in captivity at the park for release into the Cairngorms National Park.

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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Helen Senn of the Royal Zoological Society Scotland in charge of the wildcats release programme, at a vantage point overlooking the Cairngorms landscape. - Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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    Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project to rescue the species from extinction in the UK.

    The cats were reared at a wildlife park operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as part of a breeding programme that will eventually lead to about 60 wildcats being released in the Cairngorm mountains south of Inverness.

    The project, the first time a predatory mammal has been deliberately reintroduced in the UK, was set up after the cats’ numbers plummeted as a result of significant losses of native woodland, human persecution and interbreeding with domestic cats.

    In 2019, a landmark report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the Scottish wildcat population was close to being functionally extinct because of a loss of genetic integrity and population decline. Its wild population, estimated then to be about 30 animals, was found to be "no longer viable".

    Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park , in Kingussie, Scotland, on 11 October 2023.
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