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Pine marten numbers on the rise in Scotland

One of Scotland's rarest carnivores is showing encouraging signs of recovery, a new report has highlighted.

From Argyll to Aberdeenshire, and Caithness to the central belt, the pine marten is proving that rare mammals can recover their numbers, given the right conditions.

And in the Year of Natural Scotland, it is a real success story for an animal which has vanished from much of England and Wales.

A joint survey by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and The Vincent Wildlife Trust (VWT), to be published later this week, shows the pine marten population has regained ground across much of Scotland. It is now re-colonising areas from which it has been absent for more than 100 years.

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