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Edinburgh Zoo confirms death of red panda after 'health issues'

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

A second pair of lynx have been spotted in the Highlands.

Fresh lynx sighting in Highlands - two days after animals captured

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

Illegal lynx release in Highlands condemned by John Swinney

Some strange animal sightings in Scotland are more credible than others.

Scottish Strange Animal Sightings: 10 odd creatures seen in Scotland

Haggis is the newest arrival at Edinburgh Zoo.

Meet Edinburgh's Moo Deng: Zoo welcomes Haggis the pygmy hippo

World’s Grumpiest Cat comes to Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo welcomes Akiko the "world's grumpiest cat"

Cleo the cheetah, who has died at Edinburgh Zoo

Zoo to hold post mortem as cheetah dies two months after arrival

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

A view of the transformed interior of the Grasslands Café space at Edinburgh Zoo. Picture: Alan Rennie Photography

First look inside transformed café and bar within historic zoo building

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

Monkey on the loose after escaping from Scottish wildlife park

Capital couple David and May Le Sueur were together for more than 60 years

Scotsman Obituaries: David and May Le Sueur, couple who left mark on Edinburgh

Some of the most popular residents of Edinburgh zoo.

10 amazing animals you can still see at Edinburgh Zoo

Yang Guang and Tian Tian are loaded onto a China Southern cargo plane at Edinburgh Airport. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Farewell Yang Guang and Tian Tian as Edinburgh Zoo's pandas leave for China

Giant panda Yang Guang at Edinburgh Zoo. Picture: RZSS/PA Wire

Two weeks left to see Edinburgh Zoo’s giant pandas before China return

Adam Button, invertebrate keeper for the RZSS, was one of the team who helped collect leeches from a Scottish loch to begin the pioneeering reintroduction project

Why conservationists are netting blood-sucking worms in a Scottish loch

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

Three wildcats ‘not fit to release into wild’

Animal lovers are usually able to watch Yang Guang and Tian Tian, Edinburgh Zoo’s much-loved giant pandas, on a live webcam stream

Edinburgh Zoo pandas will go back to China in December

The 2019 State of Nature report, the most recent assessment of biodiversity in Scotland, shows almost half of all species have dropped in numbers and 11 per cent are classified as threatened with extinction from the UK. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

How new legal targets could help save vanishing wildlife

In the 1970s, the UK was home to around 20,000 capercaillie. Now fewer than 600 may be left (Picture courtesy of RZSS)

With more than a million species facing extinction, politicians must act

25 pictures of Edinburgh Zoo through the years

Sick Kids' patient Rosa Carter, four, interacts with the meerkats. Picture: Chris Watt Photography

Meerkat enclosure to be built at Scottish children's hospital

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

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

Rare penguin chick hatched at Edinburgh Zoo

Watch as rare penguin chick hatches at Edinburgh Zoo

Families and children watch the famous Penguin Parade at Edinburgh Zoo in the summer of 1962. The first parade happened by mistake when some penguins escaped their enclosure in 1950.

25 pictures of Edinburgh Zoo through the years

Scottish wildcat numbers have dropped so low that the species, Felis silvestris, has been declared 'functionally extinct' in the wild. Picture: RZSS/Saving Wildcats

Scottish wildcat kittens prepare for freedom as race to halt extinction ramps up

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

First-ever Scottish wildcat release approved

Edinburgh Zoo operator the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is among the names on the open letter to Rishi Sunak.

Zoos say breeding programmes of endangered animals in jeopardy due to Brexit

Edinburgh's pandas are set to return to China.

Edinburgh Zoo’s giant pandas to return to China this year

A fond farewell planned for Edinburgh’s very own herd of giraffes – and everyone’s invited

Ad Feature Herd of giraffes to say goodbye to Edinburgh

Mrs Wolowitz was thought to be the oldest of her species in the world

'World's oldest' penguin killed by intruder fox at Edinburgh Zoo

Giant panda Tian Tian is one of the most famous residents at Edinburgh Zoo. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which owns zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park, has released a strategy pledging to: reverse the decline of at least 50 species over the next eight years; create deeper connections with nature for more than a million people; and enable more than 100 communities to better protect nature

Nature needs help more than ever but we must act now, says zoo chief David Field

A pine hoverfly that has been spotted in the wild in Britain for the first time in nearly a decade following conservation efforts. Picture: Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms (RIC)/PA Wire

Endangered adult pine hoverfly spotted in Scottish wild for first time in years

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

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

Wildcats are being bred for release into the wild (Picture: RZSS)

Scotland must help its wildcats and beavers survive – Scotsman comment

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

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 tiny polar bear cub has been born at the Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore in the Highlands, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has announced.

Edinburgh's pandas arrived in 2011 from their native China on a ten-year loan as part of a conservation breeding programme

Edinburgh Zoo to pay half-price deal to keep pandas for two years

Edinburgh Zoo: Giant pandas to stay at Edinburgh Zoo for another two years

Giant pandas to stay at Edinburgh Zoo for another two years

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

More than 40 huge giraffe sculptures will take to the streets of the Capital next year when Edinburgh Zoo’s Giraffe About Town trail goes live in Summer 2022.

Glenmorangie backing sculpture trail of 40 giraffes

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

David Field, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Chief Executive

Tall stories from the animal kingdom - David Field

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

Colourful giraffe sculptures will take to the streets of the Capital next year.

Edinburgh Zoo hopes giraffe sculptures will help the city recover after lockdown

Young female wildcat Nell, with her siblings at Highland Wildlife Park, near Kingussie in the Cairngorms (Photo: Royal Zoological Society of Scotland/PA Wire).

Endangered Scottish wildcats given lifeline through new funding

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

The bright lights of Edinburgh Zoo's Christmas Nights events will be making their return for a second year running, RZSS has announced.

Edinburgh Zoo to bring back Christmas Nights this winter

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

Ronnie and Arrow are the first of the giraffes to arrive at Edinburgh Zoo, the first time the giant animals have been in the Capital for 15 years

Graceful giraffes return to Edinburgh Zoo after 15 year absence

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