Innovative mammal conservation
Voting is now closed. Thank you to everyone who supported us by voting in the Aviva Community Fund – you helped us reach the finals! Winners will be announced in January 2017. We have entered the Aviva Community Fund to win funds for our Pine Marten Recovery Project. Help us make a difference to Read More
21st October 2016
Download the 2nd All-Ireland Pine Marten Symposium Agenda We are pleased to invite you to the 2nd All-Ireland Pine Marten Symposium to be held at Ti Chulainn Community and Conference Centre on the 14 and 15 October 2016. This two-day meeting has been organised to build on the success of the first meeting held in Galway Read More
4th October 2016
The VWT’s Pine Marten Recovery Project featured on Countryfile at 6:15pm Sunday 2 October on BBC1. Tom Heap interviewed our Pine Marten Project Manager, Jenny MacPherson, as she arrived to mid-Wales in the early hours of the morning with some very precious cargo! We are celebrating the successful translocation this month of a further 16 pine Read More
30th September 2016
It’s not too late to save UK nature but we must act now – that is the conclusion from a coalition of more than 50 leading wildlife and research organisations behind the State of Nature 2016 report. The Vincent Wildlife Trust is one of 53 wildlife organisations that have pooled expertise and knowledge to present Read More
14th September 2016
A new paper has been published by authors from The Vincent Wildlife Trust, Swift Ecology and Myostismart on the provision and occupancy of pine marten den boxes. 50 den boxes were installed in Galloway Forest, Scotland, in order to increase the availability and diversity of suitable den sites for breeding female martens and aid monitoring of the Read More
1st August 2016
Our latest newsletter from the Pine Marten Recovery Project has just been published. Read the latest news on the pine martens relocated to Wales in the autumn of 2015 and find out more about our on-going pine marten work both in the UK and in Ireland. Read the newsletter here.
9th June 2016
Whilst we may be a little biased, some remote cameras set up by our Pine Marten Project Field Assistant, Josie Bridges, have captured some amazing pine marten footage. We have had several cameras trained on a den box in which PM02 had chosen to give birth and one of the cameras caught some fabulous footage Read More
7th June 2016
It’s official – pine marten kits have been born in Wales! The pine marten carries the title of Britain’s second rarest carnivore after the wildcat making these births a very significant moment in the conservation of this native mammal. At least three of the ten female pine martens brought to Wales from Scotland last autumn Read More
1st June 2016
The largest carnivore recovery programme of its kind is well underway with the restoration of healthy and self-sustaining pine marten populations in southern Britain. It has been six months since we completed the first translocations of 20 pine martens to Wales from Scotland. In that time, these pioneering martens have settled in the release area Read More
24th May 2016
The report on our recent national polecat survey has just been published and can be downloaded here. We are very grateful to everyone who submitted records for the survey. Without you, the survey would not have been possible. A summary of the survey report is shown below. Summary A total of 1761 records of polecats Read More
7th April 2016