Thinking they were all alone, the team was overjoyed when a small furry face popped out from a pile of stones - a rust-coloured stoat they named Randall. The stoat - a member of the mustelid ...

Conservationists are celebrating the success of a large-scale stoat removal project in Orkney. The non-native mammals have wreaked havoc on indigenous birds and voles since their arrival on the ...

Internal Orkney Native Wildlife Project (ONWP) papers, released to The Orcadian, suggest that a plan to use “species control ...

The Orkney Native Wildlife Project, which organisers say is the largest stoat removal from an inhabited landscape anywhere in the world, has delivered benefits to hen harriers, rare wading birds and ...

A trio of stoat-detection dogs have arrived in Orkney in the latest phase of an eradication project. Stoats are common in parts of mainland Scotland, but only started appearing in Orkney in 2010.

Orkney's wildlife, including several threatened bird species and the endemic Orkney Vole are showing signs of recovery with population numbers and nesting successes increasing since work began to ...

Central to the mission was the eradication of invasive species the stoat, first recorded on the island in 2010. More than 6500 stoats have been eradicated from Orkney using humane lethal traps ...

Orkney has a stoat problem, and Macca the Fox Terrier has been flown in from New Zealand to help get rid of them. It is the first time in the UK a dog has been used for the task. Stoats are native ...

Published today by the RSPB a new report shows that in just four years the Orkney Native Wildlife Project is delivering on ...