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Do Bheatha Don Duthaich: Episode 5: Lugh (Lynx)

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Lugh (Lynx)

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Episode 5: Lugh (Lynx)

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Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart discusses the lynx, absent from the Highlands for 1000 years.

Young Gaelic writers consider the possible reintroduction of extinct species into the Highlands. A portrait of the secretive and elusive lynx.

Sgrìobhadairean òga Gàidhlig le cuis nam beathaichean a bha beò air a Ghàidhealtachd aig aon am.

Tha deasbad air èirigh mu bhi a' toirt ais chun a' Ghàidhealtachd beathaichean a bha aig aon am beò ann bho cho-dhùin an EU gum bu choir beachdachadh air gnè bheathaichean a bha dualach do sgìrean a' thilleadh thuca , ' ma bha sin comasach. Tha sgrìobhadairean Gàidhlig òga a' beachdachadh air a chuis anns an t-sreath seo.

Tha coir is mìle bliadhna bho dh'fhalbh an lugh as a Ghàidhealtachd , ach de a thachradh ma thilleadh e. Tha Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart a' meòrachadh air a bheathach dìomhair seo.

Young Gaelic writers consider the possible reintroduction of extinct species into the Highlands.

An EU directive states that animal species once indigenous to, but now extinct from, rural regions of Europe should be reintroduced wherever possible. It's led to a great deal of debate about what is in line for a comeback to the Scottish Highlands.

The lynx has been absent from the Highlands for more than 1000 years. Yet, after the beaver, it is the species perhaps most likely to be reintroduced. A woodland creature, it both shuns human contact and avoids the open fields and hills favoured by sheep. In Rothiemurchus Forest and at the Inchnadamph caves in Sutherland - where lynx bones have been found - Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart creates a portrait of this secretive and elusive animal.

Gaelic writers consider the possible reintroduction of extinct species into the Highlands

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