Scottish Wildcats

Scottish Wildcats are listed as, critically endangered Once found throughout Britain, now only found in northwest Scotland living in wooded areas, near the edges of forests and shrublands and the Scottish Wildcat is a subspecies, of the European Wildcat Domestic cats pose a great threat, for these Scottish Wildcats as there are very few genetically pure populations left, of this Wildcat and deforestation has left them confined, to the Scottish Highlands and snares and traps are have accounted for many of their deaths