By Emily Marshall – Naturally Native Project Officer for NWT With autumn just around the corner, we are now entering the American mink dispersal season. American mink are an invasive non-native species which can decimate local water vole populations as well as being a problem for other animals like fish and ground nesting birds....
Our new Naturally Native project officer, Mark Slaughter, tells us about the significant threat American Mink poses to our Great British water vole. The fur industry brought American mink to the UK from North America in 1929. Some escaped from mink farms and others have been intentionally released. By 1956 they were breeding in...