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Resources

Staff at Vincent Wildlife Trust have produced a range of free, downloadable resources on pine martens and the work to conserve them in Britain. Some have written books that can be bought online through NHBS.

Guidance Documents

A guide to identifying evidence of pine martens

This guide gives an overview of the pine marten and shows how to identify pine marten field signs. The leaflet also provides information on the pine marten projects in England and Wales and ways of getting involved.

Guidance Documents

Vincent Wildlife Trust Ten-Year Strategy (2020-2030)

VWT's 2020-2030 strategy sets out ten years of conserving threatened mammals using scientifically sound research. It continues to be a catalyst for innovative conservation as it works with new species, new partnerships and new areas.

Scientific Publications

Lightweight den boxes enhance habitat for pine martens Martes martes in a conifer plantation in south-west Scotland

An absence of elevated cavities in young woodlands may force pine martens to use suboptimal den sites, and consequently limit population distribution, abundance, and breeding success. Artificial den boxes have been designed and installed in recent years and occupied by both non-breeding and breeding pine martens. This paper reports on a trial of different designs of pine marten den boxes.

Scientific Publications

The Galloway Forest Pine Marten Den Box Project

This article provides a chronological summary of the background, origins and delivery of the twenty-year Galloway Forest Pine Marten Den Box project.

Reprinted from the Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Volume 97 (2023), pages 1–16.

Scientific Publications

Comparing the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of sampling methods for estimating population abundance and density of a recovering carnivore: the European pine marten (Martes martes). Croose, E. et al. (2019).

This paper compares the efficacy of three survey methods (live trapping, hair tubes and scats) for estimating abundance and population density of the European pine marten (Martes martes) in Galloway Forest, Scotland.

Photo: ©Robert Cruickshanks

Scientific Publications

Translocated native pine martens Martes martes alter short-term space use by invasive non-native grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis. McNicol, C. et al. (2020).

We investigated the short-term effects of exposure to translocated pine martens on the space use and survival of resident grey squirrels.

Photo: ©Jason Hornblow