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- UK authorities have failed to capture a lone male stoat on Rousay after a £150,000 five-month hunt.
- Officials deployed 229 traps, 59 AI-equipped cameras, and detection dogs to locate the predator.
- The invasive stoat threatens nesting colonies of curlews, lapwings and oystercatchers on Rousay.
- The predator also endangers the endemic Orkney vole.
- The £15 million ONWP has killed 9,039 stoats elsewhere and called the Rousay sighting ‘desperately disappointing’.