Mink Control Gains Momentum.

Mink Trapping | Mink Raft



More than 50 conservationists, representing wildlife trusts and environmental organisations nationwide, attended a mink control refresher workshop run by the game and wildlife conservation trust. The aim of the workshop was to pool knowledge and experiences, while benefiting from the latest research by the Trust on mink control, in order to maintain the national effort to save the threatened water population.

Delegates were presented with the trusts updated GWCT Mink Raft guidelines, which includes all the latest information necessary to use the rafts, how to construct them, how to identify mink tracks and much more besides. The GWCT Mink Rafts consists of a buoyant base that supports a simple tracing device, covered by a wooden tunnel. The tracking device uses a mixture of clay and sand worked together to form a paste and spread over floral oasis foam. The permanently moist paste clearly records the tracks of visiting wildlife, including mink. Rafts should be located alongside marginal bank-side vegetation and tethered securely with rope. The trust recommends that on liner water courses the rafts should be spaced 1KM apart. Ready-made rafts, can be brought from Forsham Cottage Arks in Kent, (01233 820 229) who make a good quality flat-pack raft to the GWCT specification which costs £49.00 including VAT (collected price). For free copies of the Trust's latest mink raft guidelines, telephone: 01425 652 281 or visit the trust's website at www.gwct.org.uk

For more information on the raft itself please visit our Mink Raft page.