The petition to protect publicly-owned Clashindarroch Forest and its resident wildcat from development has almost reached 230,000 signatures; thank you so much for supporting it once again. And apologies for the lack of recent updates; but as you may see from the attached video a couple of unexpected visitors turned up and have taken up a lot of time... Two gorgeous wildcat kittens were reported to conservation group Wildcat Haven, who asked me to help identify if they had been orphaned and then support their rescue when we could find no trace of their mother. Weak and dehydrated, they were moved to a special rescue facility in the West Highlands. They've settled into the huge forest enclosure wonderfully and now have a whole team taking care of them. They're being brought up with the least possible human contact so that they can be released back into the wild as soon as they're old enough to live independently. If you'd like to support the upbringing and future release of these two priceless kittens that make up about 6% of the estimated wildcat population, you can sponsor them through Wildcat Haven at www.wildcathaven.com and get lots of exclusive pictures and video as they grow up; please give them your support if you can! The sponsorship program will also be used to help the Clashindarroch wildcats, helping pay for things like remote cameras to identify where wildcats live in the forest and prove when logging or commercial development threatens to illegally disturb them. Meanwhile, Scottish Parliament is on summer recess so the petition will keep going until they return. Along with Wildcat Haven I have written to Scottish First Minister Nicole Sturgeon requesting a stop to all logging activities in the forest, pointing out that the actions of the Forestry Commission there are very much illegal, but no answer as yet. Wildcat Haven have also written seperately to the Forestry Commission outlining the same legal complaint and making clear that any further logging will be reported to the police as a wildlife crime, no answer from them either so far. So please, keep sharing the petition, keep writing to the First Minister (firstminister@gov.scot), and if you can please help raise the kittens for a life in the wild and share around their video online, you can follow them at www.facebook.com/ScottishWildcatHaven and sponsor them at www.wildcathaven.com. Thanks so much as always; more updates soon!