Highland Wildlife Park

The snow leopard cubs are pulling in crowds to the Highland Wildlife Park

Adorable new faces lure visitors to Highland Wildlife Park

Cairngorms tourism bosses launch winter campaign for UK’s largest national park

The monkey escaped from its enclosure on Sunday morning. Picture: Highland Wildlife Park

Missing 'Kingussie Kong II' returns home to Highland Wildlife Park

The charity which runs Edinburgh Zoo said “misleading” forecasts are costing it up to £40,000 a day.

Zoo bosses say 'misleading' weather forecasts are costing it thousands

The Scottish Greens want to legalise lynx in Scotland.

Could the reintroduction of lynx soon be legalised in Scotland?

Victoria - the UK's oldest polar bear - has been euthanised

'Amazing' UK's oldest polar bear euthanised

Caramel was very loved among staff and visitors at the park

Scottish wildlife community in mourning after 21-year-old camel dies

Lynx spotted in the Cairngorms National Park

One lynx dead after four recovered from suspected 'rogue rewilding'

Lynx spotted in the Cairngorms National Park

Second pair of lynx on the loose captured in the Cairngorms

The two lynx shown on the loose in this image. Picture: RZSS

Illegal lynx release in Highlands condemned by John Swinney

A pair of lynx have been spotted in the Highlands in a suspected illegal release, according to authorities

Lynx found on the loose in Highlands in 'suspected illegal release'

See pictures of the adorable baby vicuna born in a Scottish zoo

Pine Marten, Mustela Martes. From The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1845 (colour lithograph).

A pine marten in the garden made me ponder the sixth mass extinction Paul Wilson

The Scottish wildcat is the UK's only remaining native cat species, but also its most endangered mammal

How the Scottish wildcat can be brought back from ‘extinction’ using genetics

Monkey hat went on the run in Highlands begins 'new chapter' with move to Edinburgh.

Monkey that went on run in Highlands begins 'new chapter' with move to Edinburgh

A Japanese macaque who went on the run in the Highlands is being moved to Edinburgh Zoo (Picture: Carl Nagle)

Will Edinburgh Zoo be able to hold world-famous monkey escapologist?

A Japanese Macaque that went on the run for four nights in the Highlands has been captured and returned to its home at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig. PIC: Carl Nagle.

Fugitive monkey busted at bird feeder after four nights on run

The Japanese macaque eats from a bird feeder in a back garden in Kincraig. Picture: Carl Nagle.

Watch: Drone footage shows escaped monkey roaming Highlands

The Japanese macaque eats from a bird feeder in a back garden in Kincraig. Picture: Carl Nagle.

Monkey sighted following escape from Scottish wildlife park as hunt continues

Snow monkeys are native to Japan where they famously enjoy bathing in hot springs (Picture: Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images)

Monkey's 'great escape' will hopefully have a happy ending

The Japanese macaque eats from a bird feeder in a back garden in Kincraig. PIC: Carl Nagle.

Highlands hunt continues for 'Kingussie Kong' after monkey's zoo escape

The monkey escaped from its enclosure on Sunday morning. Picture: Highland Wildlife Park

Monkey on the loose after escaping from Scottish wildlife park

A wildcat in the Cairngorms National Park. Photo: RZSS/PA Wire

Three wildcats ‘not fit to release into wild’

A wildcat in the Cairngorms National Park. Photo: RZSS/PA Wire

Released wildcats thriving ahead of ‘challenging’ winter

The dark-bordered beauty moth is just one of the invertebrate species at the centre of conservation work by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

How 'breed and release' is keeping Scotland's wee bugs and beasties alive

Competition winner Willow Campbell.

Art competition winners close the Nature Festival

Peek-a-boo: One of five new arrivals at the pioneering Saving Wildcats project, led by the RZSS and based at its Highland Wildlife Park

Adorable wildcat kittens make debut at Highland Wildlife Park

Elephants particularly enjoy the presence of zoo visitors, a new study suggests

Leader: If we could talk to the animals ...

The decision marks the first-ever conservation translocation of wildcats in Britain. (Pic: Saving Wildcats)

First-ever Scottish wildcat release approved

The Scottish wildcat has been earmarked for conservation action alongside other iconic and endangered animals from across the globe in the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's new strategy. Picture: RZSS

Scottish wildcats and snails among global creatures on zoo’s urgent ‘save’ list

Watch: Adorable wildcat kittens frolic in the Highlands, unaware future of the species is riding on their backs

What’s up pussycat: Adorable wildcat kittens make debut appearance

Normally a tourist magnet, Edinburgh Castle saw a massive drop in visitor numbers.

Covid Scotland: Edinburgh Castle visitor numbers plunge while zoo flourishes

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has shared adorable new images of the UK’s youngest polar bear at Highland Wildlife Park.

3 new pictures of the UK’s youngest polar bear cub released

Bear with me... the three-month-old cub tries to wriggle free to play in the snow.

Scotland's newest polar bear cub's sex confirmed during vet check-up

Kittens born this season could be released into the wild in 2023. (pic: RZSS/Saving Wildcats)

Kitten release plan to save critically endangered Scottish wildcats

SCOTLAND’S ONLY POLAR BEAR CUB HAS FULLY OPENED ITS EYES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS DEN AT THE ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND’S (RZSS) HIGHLAND WILDLIFE PARK NEAR AVIEMORE.

Scotland's only polar bear cub pictured opening eyes for first time

Monkeys enjoying festive treats at Edinburgh Zoo ahead of Christmas (Photo: RZSS).

Christmas celebrated by monkeys at Edinburgh Zoo

Hamish was born at the Highland Wildlife Park in 2017 but staff won't been able to get to the most recent new born until spring 2022. (Picture credit: RZSS/SIÂN ADDISON)

New polar bear cub born at Highland Wildlife Park

A sloth in the care of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. (Picture credit: RZSS)

BBC goes behind the scenes at Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park

An artist's impression of the Wildlife Learning Hub.

Scotland's new discovery centre will showcase our wildlife - Beccy Angus

Ruby was born in July at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo.

Edinburgh Zoo’s baby red panda named

A pioneering captive breeding programme, being carried out at the Highland Wildlife Park, began two years ago with 25 larvae of the critically endangered pine hoverfly - nearly 7,000 have now hatched, bringing new hopes for the survival of the native species

Thousands of new arrivals spell hope for critically endangered hoverfly
New hopes have been raised for the future of a critically endangered native insect whose last known survivors have been clinging on to existence in the Scottish...

Three Amur tiger cubs explore their outside enclosure for the first time at Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Scotland's Amur tigers are vital to efforts to avoid extinction – Scotsman says

Three rare Amur tiger cubs have been revealed as two girls and a boy after they successfully passed their first health check at a wildlife park in the Highlands.

Rare tiger cubs identified as two girls and a boy after health check

Highland Wildlife Park located within the Cairngorms National Park, Kingussie (Photo: RZSS).

Scottish wildlife park hosts first After Hours, including UK's only polar bears

A litter of three endangered Amur tiger cubs has been born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Highland Wildlife Park.

Three endangered Amur tiger cubs born at Scottish wildlife park

The winner will take their pick of feeding polar bears, a snow leopard or a tiger at the Highland Wildlife Park (Photo: RZSS Media).

'After-hours' access to Wildlife park to raise funds for new centre

The calf hasn't been named yet but is doing well.

Wildlife conservation charity celebrates birth of adorable Mishmi takin calf

Love is in the air this Valentine's day as polar bears in Scotland’s Highland Wildlife Park snuggle up

Love is in the air as polar bears in Highland Wildlife Park snuggle up

Amur tigers Botzman and Dominika at Highlands Wildlife Park.

Cameras capture Amur tigers snuggling up

Yang Guang and Tian Tian were a gift from the Chinese government in 2011. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Edinburgh Zoo pandas may have to leave due to Covid financial pressures

Record breeding year for critically endangered wildcats

2020 has been a record breeding year for critically endangered wildcats

Koshi has arrived at the wildlife park.

New snow leopard arrives in Scotland

Chan had feline herpesvirus (FHV) and was put to sleep to prevent more suffering.

Highland Wildlife Park snow leopard put to sleep

New TV series to go behind the scenes at Edinburgh Zoo

New TV series to go behind the scenes at Edinburgh Zoo

Scottish wrestler Andy Robin with his pet bear Hercules in April 1992.

On this day 1980: Hercules the grizzly bear goes missing in the Scottish Hebride...

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