Kitten may help save wildcats from extinction
THE birth of a rare Scottish wildcat kitten has been feted as a step towards guarding the species against extinction.
The unnamed male kitten was born to two pure bred Scottish wildcats at Wildwood Discovery Park in Kent.
Its parents, Hamish and Flora, are among only 400 Scottish wildcats left in the world.
Wildcats have been around for more than two million years, sharing the land with mammoths long before man appeared.
Peter Smith, chief executive of the Wildwood Trust, said that centuries of persecution and deforestation had reduced the number of Scottish wildcats massively. They are now Britain's rarest mammals.
The Wildwood Trust is holding a competition to name the kitten born earlier this month.
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