There are now nearly 20 wildcats in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park, and experts are optimistic about the animal's ...

A conservation project says it will have to find new ways to help fund the captive breeding of Scottish wildcats for release ...

Hedgehogs are typically small animals, growing to just 5-12 inches long. Astonishingly, however, one specimen found in Lanarkshire, Scotland last weekend could be compared to the size of a beach ball.

The Scottish SPCA rescued almost 40,000 animals last year. The animal welfare charity took in 37,214 animals – an average of over 100 per day – in 2024, many of them suffering from abuse and neglect.

A study has found that Scottish exotic animal owners have been euthanising their own pets through decapitation. The research, ...

Rare sheep on a remote Scottish island are being left to starve to death, it has been claimed. Soay sheep have roamed wild on the archipelago of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides for thousands of years, ...

Scottish scientists have launched a groundbreaking low-methane cow breeding program to tackle global warming.Scotland’s Rural ...

Animal Defenders International (ADI) congratulates the Scottish Parliament for being the first nation in the UK to ban the use of wild animals in travelling circuses. MSPs today unanimously voted ...