A Caithness-based countryside ranger has outlined issues faced by wildlife from the invasive American mink and steps taken to ...

Cameras and scopes were placed in the burrows to monitor the prairie dogs ... They were deceased, we believe, now due to a mink getting inside of the exhibit and causing them to expire.

The beavers’ dam-building in the forest has led to the creation of a new “edge habitat” along watercourses, where water voles can dig burrows hidden from predatory mink. The Knapdale beavers ...