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Monitoring is an important part of pine marten conservation — as their populations expand into new areas it enables an informed approach to supporting the species' recovery. It is, however, imperative that we monitor pine martens using den boxes without disturbing them as it is a criminal offence 
to come within five metres of an occupied den box. This guide outlines best practice for den box monitoring.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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