The Scottish Wildcat - on the verge of extinction

[Alan H]

http://www.scottishwildcats.co.uk/

The one hundred cats that they refer to on the website is an estimate of the number of non-hybrid cats left in the wild. It's the usual sad story of habitat degradation, but this time it's exacerbated by hybridization with feral housecats, which are a different species. In past years when I've posted this information, the collective XMarks the Scot response has been a massive yawn, akin to the disinterest shown by most on the site regarding the state of the natural environment in Scotland. I am curious if that still be the case.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/environ...dcat-1-3486596

This may be a stretch, but this whole point really struck me hard again, when I looked at creagdubh's pictures of his clan gathering, and there's a shot of the Chief posing with a.....stuffed wildcat. Are Scottish traditions endangered? If so, then how fitting is it that a picture of a Clan Chief of one of the Clans Chattan is taken with a stuffed animal representing a species which is on the verge of extinction?

If there was ever a cause that the Clans Chattan could get behind, IMHO, this is it.