In this episode I’ll be talking to David Hetherington, author of The Lynx and Us, a fascintaing insight into these beautiful creatures and how they could return to live wild in the Scottish countryside.
Across mainland Europe, the Eurasian lynx is staging a comeback. Freed from the pressures of unsustainable hunting and benefiting from a softening of public attitudes, this enigmatic feline is gaining in number and expanding its range. Here in Scotland however, the return of large predators remains a tricky conversation.
There is irrefutable science backing the vital ecological role of large carnivores in maintaining healthy living systems, but returning lynx to Scotland is less about science and more about people and their willingness to live alongside an animal that we’ve long forgotten.
