Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...

Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore. They are the ...

making them one of the UK's largest native leeches. They can be found in a variety of freshwater habitats, including ponds, lochs, ditches, wetlands, and streams. In Scotland, medicinal leeches ...

The baby leeches offer hope of boosting fragmented ... although these are more likely to be one of the 16 other freshwater leeches that live in the UK that the medicinal leech.