Mink Control Project Officer: South London

The Waterlife Restoration Belief

The Belief is a charity, registered in 2022, with origins within the Waterlife Restoration East (WRE)
challenge. WRE began in 2019 when companions from the lengthy working East Anglian Mink and Water
Vole Group joined with others from the fields of wildlife conservation, water administration, sport
capturing and fishing. All shared the purpose of bringing life again to the waterways and wetlands
of East Anglia, by way of the removing of 1 extremely damaging invasive, non-native species: the
American Mink Neogale vison.

The unique WRE challenge had three linked goals:

• to humanely management mink all through East Anglia,
• to see if eradication was doable at a large geographical scale,
• to develop and unfold the usage of greatest observe for mink management.

Underpinning this was the imaginative and prescient that an efficient mannequin might be developed which may then be
used to advertise mink management, and in the end eradication, all through Nice Britain. The
Waterlife Restoration Belief was fashioned to assist make this imaginative and prescient a actuality by facilitating the
improvement of a ‘household’ of catchment-based mink initiatives working all through the nation.

With help from our companions and lots of of citizen scientist volunteers we’ve got been in a position
to indicate that eradication is achievable utilizing trapping alone. We now have to encourage others to
be a part of the household and collectively roll out greatest observe throughout the nation.

Job Overview

An element-time mounted time period put up (24 hours per week) is on the market to cowl Higher London south of
the River Thames for a interval ending on 31 March 2025. If follow-on funding is secured, the
put up could also be renewable. The employer is the Waterlife Restoration Belief, and the put up is funded
by way of a grant from the Rewild London fund to The Zoological Society of London and a grant from
the Folks’s Belief for Endangered Species. The realm is adjoining to a large scale water vole
restoration challenge funded below Pure England’s Species Restoration Programme, the Thames to
Lincoln Mission (TtoL). This already covers London north of the Thames. The aim of the
challenge is to take away invasive American mink, to guard endangered water voles and different native
wildlife and permit their populations to get well. The PO will work intently with workers engaged on
the TtoL challenge.

The post-holder will develop a mink management community throughout south London utilizing ‘sensible’ mink
traps monitored by volunteers. The challenge will use adaptive administration strategies to maximise
effectivity; the ‘greatest observe’ for humane mink trapping developed up to now is detailed on the
WRT web site.

The put up might be home-based, ideally in an applicable location in south London appropriate to
cowl Higher London south of the Thames. The Mission Officer (PO) might be anticipated to make use of their very own automobile for journey
and shifting tools however obtain a mileage price for doing so. Flexibility in working hours will
be key; this isn’t a 9-5 weekday workplace job. Though POs is not going to be anticipated to exceed 24
hours per week on common, the time might be unfold over greater than 3 days, some weeks might be
busier than others. No less than a couple of minutes of web-based work might be wanted day-after-day,
together with at weekends, to help volunteers with any issues and to make sure that our work is
all the time carried out to the best animal welfare requirements.

All essential coaching might be offered.