Are big cats really roaming the uk?

Rick Minter has devoted 25 years of his life to the hunt for the feline predators he says are roaming free throughout Britain. And it’s not as far-fetched as it sounds…

WE CONTINUE OUR 40TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS BY HIGHLIGHTING OUR FAVOURITE WILDLIFE SPOTS ACROSS THE UK COMPILED BY LISA HARRIS

It is almost 200 years since the Zoological Society of London opened its animal collection in Regent’s Park. There was a zoo before that, actually a menagerie, in a very surprising place, the Tower of

1 BASKING SHARK Basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) are the world’s second largest shark. They grow bigger than great whites and can reach a staggering 12 metres long, yet these gentle giants feed on

The white-tailed eagle, the UK’s largest bird of prey, was brought back from extinction – and it all started with an ambitious project on a mountainous Scottish island, half a century ago...

The pine marten may have a taste for jam sandwiches, but its razor-sharp claws and appetite for eggs and grey squirrels makes it a predatory force to be reckoned with, says Patrick Galbraith