The Eurasian lynx could be stalking through British woodlands within months after plans were submitted to reintroduce the species, absent from Britain for about 1,300 years.
Campaigners have applied for a licence to import six of the wildcats, which were hunted to extinction in the UK, and release them in Northumberland's Kielder Forest.
The Lynx Trust said the animals, which can grow to 1.3m in length, "belong" in Britain and there was a "moral obligation" to bring them back.
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