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An emergency bid to save a population of capercaillie in the Cairngorms National Park has been launched.
The bird, a large variety of woodland grouse, have been in decline for decades, and are expected to become extinct in 20 to 30 years.
The Cairngorms National Park, in the Highlands, is home to 85% of the UK’s capercaillie population, with only 532 remaining in Britain, partly due to predators including pine martens and badgers.
In the early 1990s, it was predicted that capercaillie would be extinct in Scotland by about 2010 and efforts were started by conservationists to save the species.
An emergency bid to save a population of capercaillie in the Cairngorms National Park has been launched.
The bird, a large variety of woodland grouse, have been in decline for decades, and are expected to become extinct in 20 to 30 years.
The Cairngorms National Park, in the Highlands, is home to 85% of the UK’s capercaillie population, with only 532 remaining in Britain, partly due to predators including pine martens and badgers.
In the early 1990s, it was predicted that capercaillie would be extinct in Scotland by about 2010 and efforts were started by conservationists to save the species.
