Scotland rolled out a “rolling carpet” of mink monitoring and targeted trapping across 29,000 km²; volunteers removed at least 646 invasive predators in four years

American mink once seemed difficult to contain across Scotland’s waterways. The semi-aquatic predators could move through connected rivers and wetlands, making it difficult to know where they were present and where control efforts would be most effective. A coordinated approach eventually began combining detection, volunteer monitoring and targeted trapping across a much wider area.

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