for the last few years, is to, first of all, find out if there were martens here, which we did successfully in 2015. and now to just monitor the martens because, of course, the pine martens were presumed extinct for over a century in the county. and they ve made this comeback. and unless we know exactly where they are and what they re doing, we can t protect them and make sure that we don t lose them again. it s a really good sign that shropshire is a really wild county, so we think we ve lost a lot of our wildlife and we ve lost our our nature, which is true across much of the country. but we ve still got these little wild pockets where things like pine martens can exist. you can see a lot of the trees here. they re quite young trees, pine martens like big old trees that have got hollows. and they d actually make their dens up like five metres off the ground. so the den boxes are a key element and that s why we ve tried to install as many as possible. but the really exciting element o
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