Re: Water vole restoration

In message <1152264174.3838.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, BAC <casswalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes


Even more strange is it's apparently a welfare issue if a vole gets killed
by a mink, but not by other predators.

I find that for me it is an animal welfare if the voles are being killed needlessly by animals which should not be in the voles habitat in the first place. Particularly when many (most?) originally got there only because some lunatic released them.

That may not be animal welfare for you but it is for me particularly now it is causing the rapid decline of the species. The predators of their natural ecological niche did not cause this.

The thing about mink predation,
surely, is that it's particularly efficient predation, hence the concern
that viable populations of voles might not be feasible in locations with a
breeding mink population.


That's why I feel it is to do with their welfare.
--
Malcolm Kane
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