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Other work to support our Ten-Year Strategy
People and
partnerships
Working in partnership is key to our work and in 2025 we worked
with many organisations in both formal and informal partnerships
to deliver conservation in Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe —
including volunteers, stakeholders, NGOs, statutory agencies and
universities. We also continued to build strong relationships with
local communities where we are working on the ground.
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Citizen Scientists contributed to national projects on
three of our priority species during 2025.
Our Welsh Wildcat Recovery Partnership with partners Durrell
Wildlife Conservation Trust and Wildwood Trust was formed in
2018/19 and work to date is paving the way to the release of
wildcats in Wales. Cats Protection joined as a new partner in
2025, and their expertise will make a positive contribution to
addressing feral cat populations through the partnership’s planned
trap, neuter, vaccinate, release (TNVR) work designed to mitigate
breeding and hybridisation of wildcats
We are also working in an advisory role through an increasing
number of specialist committees and steering groups such as
IUCN Working Groups, The UK Bat Steering Group — Eurobats,
The Mammal Society, Mammal Conservation Europe, England
Species Reintroduction Taskforce, and the British and Irish
Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) Reintroductions
Advisory Group.
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Volunteers
Volunteers are crucial to our work and make a signi昀椀cant
contribution across the organisation to the delivery of
our charitable objectives. Whether it’s the traditional
conservation volunteer activities, contributing to governance
as Trustees, or taking part in wider citizen science surveys,
we would not be able to achieve as much for threatened
mammal conservation without their help. Whatever the skills
people bring or whatever time they can give, it all helps
to make a difference. During 2025, we had the highest
number of recorded volunteers in one year since regular
record keeping began in 2013.
• Irish Stoat Citizen Science Survey
• Fourth National Polecat Survey
• National Pine Marten Monitoring Programme
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Volunteer hours
Volunteering activities have included:
• Bat hibernation and emergence counts
• Bat reserve management
• Pine marten den box building and installation
• Pine marten den box monitoring with cameras
• Reviewing camera trap footage
• Bat sound 昀椀le data analysis
• Building and installing bat boxes
• Habitat improvement at Pine Marten Haven sites
• Pine marten translocation support
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events
We delivered a total of 12 presentations and 4 posters at conferences,
delivered 49 other talks and lectures, and hosted 17 training events.
Staff attended and contributed to a number of conferences and meetings
including: the 昀椀rst European Small Mustelid Meeting with researchers
across Europe who are monitoring small mustelids with the aim of
transferring knowledge, building collaboration and potentially pooling
data for a meta-analysis to inform future monitoring.
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