STOATS are among the most intriguing of our wild animals. There is a good deal of mystique about them, such as their supposed ability to hypnotise rabbits into fatal submission and the legend that ...

British stoats suffered a dramatic loss in genetic diversity in the 20th century but extinct British genes were preserved in the stoat population of New Zealand, a new study has found. The research ...

UK oats company Stoats has opened a new factory south of Edinburgh as it seeks to increase production of porridge oat bars from the current nine million a year. The 22,000 square-foot site opened this ...

A project to eradicate stoats from Orkney could take another five years and cost a further £8m to complete, it has been claimed. The Orkney Native Wildlife Project began trapping the animals in 2019 ...

A project to eradicate stoats from Orkney has been granted £4m to continue its work. The Orkney Native Wildlife Project has spent £7.9m trapping more than 6,300 stoats on the islands since 2019. The ...

The number of curlew wading birds in Orkney is on the rise again after a drive to reduce the number of predatory stoats. The carnivorous mammals are classed as an invasive species in the islands, and ...

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British stoats suffered a dramatic loss in genetic diversity in the 20th Century but extinct British genes were preserved in the stoat population of New Zealand, a new study has found. The research ...