Elusive stoat finally captured on remote island after months-long search

• A lone male stoat has been caught on the Scottish island of Rousay after evading capture for more than five months.
• The £150,000 eradication operation used dogs, AI-assisted cameras, traps and biosecurity volunteers across 4,500 hectares of terrain.
• Stoats pose a significant threat to native wildlife on Orkney, including rare seabirds and the unique Orkney vole.
• The Orkney Native Wildlife Project believes that the stoat was acting alone, but monitoring will continue on the island until April 2027.
• More than 9,100 stoats have been removed from Orkney as part of the world's largest stoat eradication project on an inhabited landscape.

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Rogue stoat evades AI cameras and dogs on Scottish island for five months in £150,000 hunt