'Smart' trap trial raises hopes American mink can be driven from UK

Conservation groups target 'impossible dream' of eradicating invasive predators after success of East Anglia trialAmerican mink - the mustelids escaped from fur farms who have decimated populations of water voles and other native birds, fish and amphibians - have been eradicated from a swath of East Anglia.Until now, mink have never been successfully removed from any large area of Britain but the success of a trial using drops from the invasive predator's pungent anal scent gland to lure animals into hundreds of traps raises hopes that the species can be eradicated from the whole country. Continue reading...