One Planet News: An incarnation of an Auroch to be released in Scotland

Bigger, and bolder - how tauros may reshape the land

By Annette J Beveridge

AN ANCIENT woodland close to the western shores of Loch Ness will soon become home to an animal bred specifically to resemble a species long extinct thanks to a conservation charity.

Aurochs (an ancient cattle breed) used to roam across Britain but disappeared around 1,300 BC. These were one of Europe’s largest land animals and the…