Tracking The Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats

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Over the centuries, Britain’s most formidable wild animals have been hunted out, one by one. Lynxes, wolves and bears were pursued until the last of each was killed. Only the wildcat lived on.

The Scottish wildcat has long been spoken of in terms of guile and ferocity: not a docile pet, but a shadowy animal, elusive to the point of invisibility, and fearless when forced to fight for its life. Those who glimpse one remember its beauty, the dense fur with bold tiger stripes, the green eyed stare, the broad banded tail vanishing into forest gloom.

Driven into the remnants of Scotland’s wilderness, the last few now face an insidious danger as domesticated cats threaten to dilute their genes into oblivion. This book traces how the wildcat of the wildwood became the endangered Scottish wildcat, how it once lived and lives now, and how we, its greatest enemy, are trying to save it in its darkest hour.