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The return of the European wildcat.

Encouraging news, and your post puts it all into context. These are the kind of "important marginalia" that the Fediverse is so good at sharing.

The Taoist tradition speaks of "incipiencies", tiny bits of easy-to-overlook information that reveal emerging forces that otherwise remain hidden. Perhaps the return of the European Wildcat is one such incipiency?

(I like to think of the Fediverse as an incipiency discovery mechanism.)

#EuropeanWildcat #FelisSylvestris #rewilding #AndreaDeGiovanni #VladimirCech #incipiency

Rare images of Europe's ghost cat https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260112-rare-images-of-europes-ghost-cat

"In 2020, wildlife photographer Vladimír Čech Jr was trudging through the snow in a military zone in the Doupov Mountains, a remote, rugged area in the Czech Republic. His goal: to take photos of the #EuropeanWildcat, a species so elusive, it had been thought to be extinct in several European regions... Once thought to have vanished from Czechia in the 20th Century, wildcats had been documented in the Doupov Mountains in the late 2010s"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr43y97k252o a #EuropeanWildcat looks into the camera, realising they might soon be relocated to #England
Once-extinct European wildcats set to make a comeback in England

Fifty wildcats could be reintroduced to the countryside in south west England, conservationists say.

Wildcat (Large Woodland Animals by Bullyland)

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#EuropeanWildcat #Felis #FelisSylvestris #Bullyland

Wildcat (Large Woodland Animals by Bullyland) – Animal Toy Blog

In other #Caturday news, it appears they're #rewilding the #EuropeanWildcat here in #Devon and #Cornwall. I'm really interested to see how this changes the moorland in the next few decades.

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/wildcats-set-released-cornwall-after-8159761

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat?wprov=sfla1

Wildcats to be released into Cornish countryside

The UK's rarest native mammals were once hunted for their fur

CornwallLive