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 is proving successful – and conservationists aren't slowing down ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marty has 100 scarecrows, has used gas guns and spent numerous hours trying to see off the geese, to no avail. He is ...

Extinction-threatened wild birds and the native Orkney Vole are surging on Orkney after conservation efforts to eradicate ...

Signs of Orkney vole activity are up 200% on 2019, while threatened ground-nesting birds are doing better, an RSPB report ...

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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 ...