We are very grateful to the many hundreds of landowners who have already signed up to support the project by providing land access for native wildlife monitoring (vole and bird surveys), eradication traps and biosecurity. Their knowledge and experience has been invaluable in our efforts to protect our native wildlife and our economy from the threat of stoats.
If you are a landowner and would like to offer land access for traps or wildlife monitoring surveys, please complete our landowner form and we will be in touch.
What giving access involves
To set up land access, our project team meet with landowners, farmers or tenants on site to explain how the stoat traps operate, agree to suitable locations and access routes and discuss any areas to avoid such as fields with young livestock, crops or electric fencing.
We provide protocols and procedures for safe, responsible and agreed land access and will keep in contact about how many stoats are caught on your land and to check all is working well.
Trap locations and checks
Stoats favour linear features such as dry stone walls, ditches and the edges of water features, becasue of this the trap team will want to place traps in these areas as well as in areas of rough unimproved land normally where voles are present.
The traps are baited and made active at which point the team will then return to check the traps regularly.
By offering land access, you can help safeguard the future of our native wildlife and the benefits it provides to Orkney’s residents, visitors and economy.
To find out more, please complete our landowner form and we will get in touch.