Join expert Stuart Edmunds to uncover the ecology and impacts of American Mink.
American mink receive a lot of bad press in the UK...and often for good reason. As successful opportunist predators, they quickly settled and spread across much of the UK, impacting native species along the way. This course will examine their habits, diet and habitats and the impact they can have on them.
There will also be case-studies of projects that were formed to eradicate mink from some counties and what we can do to control their numbers. Like many other invasive non-native species (INNS), of course it is recognised that mink are here due to human activities, so the ethics of the control measures of INNS will also be covered in this session.
Delivered by Stuart Edmunds.
Stuart Edmunds is a self employed wildlife conservation specialist with a particular interest in carnivores. In 2009, he set up Shropshire Pine Marten Project with the intention of verifying or rejecting historic records of the mammal in the county. The project successfully recorded pine martens in 2015 and has been conducting further surveys across Shropshire ever since.
He has been chairman of Shropshire Mammal Group since 2013 and has worked for Natural England, The National Trust and Shropshire Wildlife Trust while running independent training on wildlife tracking and monitoring for universities and ecology consultancies. He was awarded a conservation award by International Fund for Animal Welfare in 2019.
A CPD certificate will be available on completion of the course.
Entry level: This event can be attended by people who have little to no pre-existing knowledge of the topic and wish to develop an initial understanding.
Concession tickets: available for those in education or those on a low income/in receipt of universal credit.
Accessibility:
We are committed to ensuring the accessibility of our training courses. If you require accommodations or have any accessibility concerns, please contact training@themammalsociety.org in advance, and we will be happy to assist you.
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Please note - As a small charity, we need to ensure our events are viable. Because of this, events may be postponed with two weeks' notice if not enough delegates book onto a course.