Kent project aims to cut invasive mink numbers by 90% (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Mink numbers in Kent could be cut by 90% within two years under a new project aimed at protecting wildlife.

The Waterlife Recovery Trust (WRT) has received a £20,000 grant from the BASC Wildlife Fund to expand trapping and monitoring across Kent, which once had one of Britain's highest densities of invasive American mink.

Conservationists say mink have a devastating impact on other wildlife, with the water vole, the UK's fastest-declining mammal, their main targets.

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