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Genetic profiling advances offer a new beacon of hope for bringing back one of Scotland’s most iconic animals, according to conservationists.

The Scottish wildcat, Felis silvestris, is the UK’s only surviving native cat species, but also its rarest and most threatened mammal.

Once found all across the country, it has almost completely vanished in recent times due to habitat loss and persecution and is now listed as critically endangered.

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