#reintroduction

#reintroduction

one of 18 wildcats that were released in the Scottish Highlands, UK, in October. This is the third year that wildcats have been released into the Cairngorms national park after being declared functionally extinct in Britain in 2019. Four have died, but five litters of kittens were born this year, and seven the year before. Experts have said there is real hope for the future of wildcats in ScotlandPhotograph: Peter Cairns/Scotland Big Picture/Royal Zoological Society of Scotland/PA

Since 2012, I've worked with the Tonkawa Foundation, in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico, on the recovery of the Mexican wolf ( Canis lupus baileyi), a grey-wolf subspecies that had been hunted to near-extinction by the 1980s. Reintroducing wolves to the Chihuahua region will restore ecological balance and help to regulate other wildlife populations. The Mexican wolf's return not only helps to conserve biodiversity but also represents an act of reconciliation with a species that humans persecuted for decades.