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

A coordinated stoat cull on the Scottish islands has proved successful – and conservationists aren't slowing down ...

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 ...

Conservation scientists monitoring the wildlife on Orkney have reported increased evidence of Orkney Voles and increased ...

also reporting tangible impacts on several other species. In August, the project was awarded an additional £4 million to help finish the stoat-removal job, but leaders are still on the hunt for ...

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 ...

Published Just now A project to remove non-native stoats from Orkney has boosted threatened birds and a species of vole found ...

The Orkney Native Wildlife Project, which organisers say is the largest stoat removal from an inhabited ... posing a threat to the Orkney vole, an endemic species found nowhere else, and 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 ...