Highland Wildlife Park near Kincraig is run by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and focuses on species associated with the Scottish Highlands — past, present, and future. The park has the largest collection of Scottish wildlife anywhere in the world: red deer, red squirrels, capercaillie, Scottish wildcats, ospreys. It also holds species that once lived in Scotland but were hunted or driven out: wolves, lynx, brown bears, European bison.
For families, it offers a good alternative on a rainy day — there's a drive-through section for seeing larger animals and a walk-through area for smaller ones. For naturalists, the collection of genuinely rare Scottish species in near-natural enclosures has real interest. The wildcat breeding programme here is particularly significant: fewer than 300 truly wild Scottish wildcats are thought to survive, making the captive population at Kincraig an insurance policy for the species.