A herd of tauros cattle could be released on the Dundreggan estate in the Scottish Highlands as part of a project led by rewilding charity Trees for Life.
Cattle
Tauros have been bred from ancient domestic cattle breeds to be as similar as possible to the extinct aurochs - the original wild cattle from which nearly all modern domestic breeds originate.
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The aurochs were native to Scotland and acted as a keystone species by enabling natural processes like plant colonisation through ground disturbance and nutrient cycling through their dung.
Nature recovery
Trees for Life's Tauros Project has been designed to discover whether releasing tauros cattle in a way that enables them to behave as naturally as possible could enhance nature recovery efforts at the estate and potentially elsewhere.
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