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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u201cAs part of our ongoing hedgehog monitoring work, we deploy camera traps across woodlands,\u201d said ZSL and London HogWatch Project research assistant, Kate Scott-Gatty.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this area, these are usually set off by the movement of common species such as foxes and badgers, so you can imagine our surprise at seeing a pine marten \u2013 a species usually only glimpsed in Scotland and northern England.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pine martens (martes martes)<\/em>\u00a0are easily recognisable thanks to their lush chestnut-brown coats, large searching eyes, long bushy tails and characteristic peach-coloured bibs.<\/p>\n They were once widespread across the UK, but the charismatic animals are now critically endangered in England and Wales with only some very small populations remaining in northern England, the New Forest and Wales.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know how the pine marten \u2013 a species that\u2019s most commonly found in the north of the country or Scotland \u2013 came to be in London, but we\u2019ll continue to use the HogWatch cameras to see if there are any more individuals in the area and monitor their activity,\u201d said Dr Chris Carbone<\/a>, senior research fellow at ZSL\u2019s Institute of Zoology.<\/p>\n \u201cThe return of wildlife to an area can be positive, it might mean that habitat quality is improving, or natural food sources are increasing but it\u2019s important we understand more. Any species reintroductions should only be carried out by professionals, with the appropriate checks in place \u2013 from assessing habitat suitability to screening for illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more about animals:<\/strong><\/p>\n By Jason Goodyer Published: Thursday, 08 September 2022 at 12:00 am A pine marten, a rare cat-sized, stoat-like mammal\u00a0usually found in Scotland and the north of England, has been spotted in London for the first time in a century. The elusive animal was snapped by a hidden wildlife camera set up in a patch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17745,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/endangered-pine-marten-spotted-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years.jpg",1200,597,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/endangered-pine-marten-spotted-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/endangered-pine-marten-spotted-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years-300x149.jpg",300,149,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/endangered-pine-marten-spotted-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years-768x382.jpg",768,382,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/endangered-pine-marten-spotted-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years-1024x509.jpg",800,398,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/endangered-pine-marten-spotted-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years.jpg",1200,597,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/endangered-pine-marten-spotted-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years.jpg",1200,597,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Jason Goodyer Published: Thursday, 08 September 2022 at 12:00 am A pine marten, a rare cat-sized, stoat-like mammal\u00a0usually found in Scotland and the north of England, has been spotted in London for the first time in a century. The elusive animal was snapped by a hidden wildlife camera set up in a patch of…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/Pine-marten-camera-trap-image-4-ZSL-c8e6ff6.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C349"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
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