Lynx Should They Be Re-introduced To The UK

Visit the Facebook discussion group via link below on should we introduce the Lynx back to the UK after being extinct here for 1500 years. What would be the benefits and pitfulls.
Controlling our wildlife naturally instead of culling is just one of the positives.

http://thewildcatclub.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/lynx-uk-should-it-be-reintroduced.html

BIg Cat Remains Found Cullen Scotland Similiar to Bodmin Moor

Image is copyrighted see WIKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguarundi

For full news on the remains press link.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/big-cat-remains-found-by-dog-839016

Speculation as to whether this is a cub of a large cat or could it be an otter. One would need to see this up close, measure the remains, search the area for any other evidence and wait for DNA results to be sure.

If it were one of the big cats I would look at the possibility of a Jaguarundi due to the leg length. Pure speculation of comparison by me, not a fact.
The remains are compared to those of The notorious Beast Of Bodmin. More remain pictures in link below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/2012/05/18/fang-toothed-big-cat-remains-cullen-scotland_n_1527394.html
The jury is out on this.
Should you be interested the links below will show good sets of teeth and remains to possibly compare against the Cullen remains.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4025192/Ministry-of-Defence-hid-big-cat-sightings.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111525/Is-beast-Cornwall-Remains-big-cat-pond-reports-predator-killing-ducks.html

Black Panther Beast Sighting Scalby Mills

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/local/i-spotted-the-beast-of-the-bay-1-4526440

Did this young man see a small black leopard at Scalby Mills. Perhaps other people using the station may spot the cat locally too, which might help collaborate his possible sighting of a big black cat...

Scottish Wild Cats Discovered in The Cairngorms

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17831818
Their have been a new group of Scottish Wild Cats AKA The Highland Tiger caught on wild life camera traps in the Cairngorm National Park.
Video link to footage above.
Text link with pictorial newspaper footage below
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17820001

Iberian Lynx are they recovering from the brink of extinction

http://thewildcatclub.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/iberian-lynx-returning-from-brink-of.html

Extremely good news for the Iberian Lynx.
Hopefully after 5 years of captive breeding to try and save the Iberian Lynx from extinction,they are now starting to release 1 year old females into a carefully selected area in Spain.
The area selected for it's terrain contains ample rabbit colonies,lynx favourite food, mountains and forests,for the Lynx to both hide and to escape from the mid-day heat.All hopes for the Iberian Lynx future are being pinned on this trial.

Please press link to see video coverage of the releases.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17297897

Mystery Big Cat Sighting Edinburgh

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4244890/Mystery-of-Edinburghs-big-cat-sighting.html

Police were looking for the vulnerable mother of a two day old baby abandoned in Edinburgh City.
The helicopter team were involved in the search, when heat sensors were directed onto the baby lying in it's chair a large heat source was emitted. A police woman on the ground was told to keep still, just as she did this a large cat jumped up and bounded away. It was too big to be a domestic cat and described as looking like a Puma.

European Wildcat - European Lynx

Picture above is that of an Iberian Lynx and will not be found in the UK they are near extinction in their own terrain Spain and Portugal. Our own lynx were very similiar

Picture above is either a European wildcat or Scottish Wildcat I'm not sure reference was not made on the picture found.

We originally had our own native wildcats roaming the UK. These are now only found free roaming in the wilds and highlands of Scotland and in captive breeding programmes.
Now classed as The Scottish Wildcat or The Highland Tiger
Our other native cat species were the European lynx now only found throughout the rest of Europe.
Their were many deciding factors in their demise in the UK mainly loss of their food supply and hunting.
I still believe that one or two may have escaped the extinction and still be here in the UK apart from just the known cats in Scotland cats similiar to these two species shown above are what people sometimes report as unusual big cat sightings.
They may have bred with our native ferals or other larger cats that are sometimes reported to have been seen too.
Please feel free to contact if you believe you may have spotted similiar wild cats free roaming anywhere in the whole of the British Isles.
Photos would be appreciated.