Back in July 2021 I was contacted by Matthew Plummer, who was referred to me by a landowner with a smart raft on their land. Matthew told me about a mink that had raided their pond earlier in the year although luckily they managed to trap it. His pond is surrounded by an electric [...]

Otters are making a very welcome return to the waterways of East Anglia, having been persecuted to near-extinction in our region. They and American mink often occupy the same stretch of river or drain, and otter families are frequent visitors to the mink rafts we deploy, which is why the raft tunnels are fitted [...]

Norfolk Rivers Trust has received a Green Recovery Challenge Fund grant of £229,200 for Waterlife Recovery East’s ‘Restoring biodiversity: building a mink-free East Anglia’, a partnership project including local charities Norfolk Rivers Trust, Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Countryside Restoration Trust. Waterlife Recovery East is one of the first environmental projects awarded a grant from [...]