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Other work to support our Ten-Year Strategy
Skills
Strengthening our approach
Our commitment to evidence-based conservation is
demonstrated through our role as an Evidence Champion
with Conservation Evidence. Our vision to be a catalyst
for conservation and our mission to conserve threatened
mammals is strengthened by our adoption in 2024 of
Conservation Standards across all aspects of our work,
providing a platform for us to increase our effectiveness
and share our strategic planning, evidence-based decision
making, impact assessment, and adaptive conservation
management practices with others.
We delivered 8 presentations and 6 posters at events and
conferences; delivered another 41 talks and lectures; and hosted
8 training events. The Martens on the Move Team attended 8
community events. We co-hosted the 35th Mustelid Colloquium with
Romanian Wilderness Society, Fauna & Flora and the University of
Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj held in ClujNapoca, Romania for 83 delegates from 19 countries. This provides
a platform for mustelid biologists in Europe to exchange the latest
research, discuss developments in monitoring methods and build
face-to-face connections. This year, the spotlight of the conference
was Europe’s Critically Endangered European mink. VWT also
attended, presented and chaired sessions at the 5th All-Ireland
Mammal Symposium (AIMS2024) at the Atlantic Technological
University in Galway. This provided opportunities to discuss
collaborative research on pine marten con昀氀ict mitigation measures
with academics across the island of Ireland.
To facilitate the transition to Conservation Standards,
65% of the permanent VWT staff have received external
or internal training in this approach. External training
has been provided at all levels within the Conservation
Team, including the Project Of昀椀cers, Programme Managers
and Principal Scientist. Internal training will assist the
supporting staff in the new processes for conservation
delivery, enabling them to assist with aligning our business
processes and systems with our conservation planning,
delivery, assessment, and reporting.
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Papers
PhDs
We continued to publish our research and scienti昀椀c work to
share with the wider conservation and scienti昀椀c community,
with both VWT staff and students producing or contributing
to 14 Scienti昀椀c Reports and Peer-Reviewed Papers.
We maintained our research collaboration with a number of
universities and research institutes to ensure our conservation
is evidence-led. During 2024 we directly supported four PhD
students working with the Universities of Sussex and Exeter
and co-supervised a number of other post-graduate students.
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• Grilo, C. et al. (2024) Global Roadkill Data: a data set on
terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles.
Scienti昀椀c Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04207-x
• MacPherson, J. Wright, P., Schumaker, N. & Sydney Watkins, S. (2024)
Use of multi-modelling methods to inform conservation and
reintroductions of pine marten Martes martes in Britain. Stacks
https://doi.org/10.60102/stacks-24004
Reports
• Scho昀椀eld, H., Zrnčić, V., Newson, S., Hamidović, D. and Damant, C.
• Stoats, Weasels, Martens and Polecats (Collins New Naturalist Library)
2024 by Jenny MacPherson
mammalian species. BSAVA Companion August pp20-25
• Den Box Monitoring Mini Guide, Vincent Wildlife Trust 2024
• The history of wild cats in Wales, Jenny MacPherson NATUR CYMRU 2024
• Modelling of landscape connectivity for lesser horseshoe bats between
Rathkeale and Newcastle West, County Limerick. Report to Limerick
City and County Council 2024. Patrick Wright and Kate McAney
to Devon/Somerset for the Two Moors Project. Jenny MacPherson.
Report to NatureScot and Two Moors Project Steering Group 2024
MacPherson, J., Wright, P., Calderón-Acevedo, C. A., Carter, S. P., Dürst,
A. C., Egloff, G. B., Hamed, M. K., Hapeman, P., Harris, S. N., Hassler, K.,
Humbert, J-Y., Karp, D., Kays, R., Mausbach, J., Morin, D. J., Mos, J., Allué,
S. S., Smith, L., Twining, J. P., Williamson, C. R., Zub, K. (2024).
Non-invasive methods for monitoring weasels: emerging technologies and
priorities for future research. Mammal Review 54(3):243-260.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-025-00780-7
• Croose, E., Martin J., Johnstone, S. & Birk, J.D.S. (2024) Lightweight
Melanie Baker, Ruth Hanniffy, Victoria Knight, Kate McAney,
Katherine McBride and Patrick Wright. Interim report to National Parks
and Wildlife Service and the Irish Environmental Network
• Argyll forests as potential donor sites for pine marten translocations
(2024) A review of the conservation status, distribution and ecology
of Plecotus kolombatovici Ðulić, 1980 with additional new information
on its echolocation, roosting and foraging from Lokrum Island, Croatia.
Hypsugo, VIII, 2.
• Jachowski, D. S., Bergeson S. M., Cotey, S. R., Croose, E., Hofmeester, T. R.,
• Martens on the Move Project Lea昀氀et, Vincent Wildlife Trust 2024
• Hargreaves, H. and Hargreaves D. (2024) Bats — an important
• Report on All-Ireland Irish Stoat Survey 2024. Jenny MacPherson,
events
den boxes enhance habitat for pine martens Martes martes in a conifer
plantation in southwest Scotland Conservation Evidence Journal 21, 13-18
https://doi.org/10.52201/CEJ21/PUYJ4425
• O’Connell, M.; White, R.; Haysom, K.; Seo, M.; Dooner, P.; MacAdam, C.;
Plowman, A.; Bulman, C.; Hayns, S.; Nason, M.; Smith, R.; Sutherland, W.;
Groves, L.; Orr, H.; Meakin, K.; Dagley, J.; Stringer, A.; Smart, A.; Hynes, J.;
Stone, D.; Hails, R.; Webb, J.; Hutchinson, N.; Higgins, S.; Wilson, J.;
Burns, F.; Robinson, S.; Doar, N.; Rogers, L.; Jackson, H. (2024) A vision for
the future
conservation
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