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There are believed to be only 532 capercaillie – the world’s largest grouse – remaining in the wild in the UK, all of them in Scotland. With the iconic bird on the brink of extinction, conservationists have come up with an “emergency” plan to bolster the population.
The Scottish wildcat is on the way out. There are now too few wildcats to sustain the population, according to a five-study completed by conservation group NatureScot. A separate study recently declared Felis silvestris “functionally extinct.”
