Steve Carter

Mammal biologist, ecologist & conservationist. Carnivore Programme Manager @vincentwildlife. All views are my own.

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Feeling nostalgic....we're reviewing the excellent photographs taken at the #35EMC by one of our wonderful volunteers 👏 We hope everyone enjoyed the food, entertainment....and dancing!

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Romanian Wilderness Society's Alexandra Duma did an excellent job of hosting the conference raffle & there were some excellent prizes to be won!

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@MustelidColloq Some of us enjoyed the dancing a bit too much 🤣

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@IreMammal2024 @JoshuapTwining Big shout out to @ShrewGod and others involved in organising AIMS - had to leave early to catch flight but had a great time, great Symposium! Looking forward to your species interaction models getting even more interesting with the return of an Apex predator @JoshuapTwining 😉🐺

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Huge thank you to all the wonderful speakers, the committees, our host USAMV, & everyone who made the trip to Cluj for another successful Mustelid Colloquium! #35EMC
@vincentwildlife @FaunaFloraInt @USAMVCN & RomanianWildernessSociety

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Our excellent final talk of the #35EMC - Denise Karp discussed using detection dogs for stoat and otter scat detection & shared very impressive results!

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Goncalo Matias discusses habitat use by mustelids under differing forest managements. More research and action is needed for FSC certified forests to support mustelids. #35EMC

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Salvador Salvador monitors vulnerable small mustelids in Catalonia, surveying for stoats living at high altitudes, and the effectiveness of citizen science for monitoring least weasel.
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Raluca-Ioana Nedelea shares her research in European badger dental pathology.
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A highlight of the #35EMC was our speaker Badri Baral, sharing his review of mustelids native to Nepal. The country is rich in 13 species and they urgently need more research and monitoring.

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Santiago Palazon provides an update on European polecat captive breeding and releases in Catalonia.
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Phantom mustelids: the difficulties of monitoring marbled and steppe polecats, and the importance of conserving their prey in Hungary, with Sirma Zidarova.

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Bastian Thomas , Anthony Le Guen also discussed otter genetics, on the recolonisation front in Normandy
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Samirah Blauuw is testing different non-invasive sampling methods to enable the conservation of otter in Lough Carra, Ireland, and improve invasive mink management
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Andrzej Zalewski gives an excellent keynote on our final day of presentations, discussing complex insights revealed by the American mink invasion in Europe #35EMC

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Marco Granata presents excellent work from the Italian Alps, shedding light on under studied small mustelids, with aims to start long term monitoring #35EMC

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Andrin Duerst tests the use of small structures to counteract loss of habitat heterogeneity
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Keira Washtell updated us on the impacts of culling on badger territories, which increased and overlapped as a result. Her research uses decades of consistent bait marking data, expanding our understanding of social perturbation further!

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Beatriz Afonso promotes habitat heterogeneity to enhance coexistence of wild ungulates and mesocarnivores, especially where human disturbance is high. #35EMC

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An excellent example of scientific collaboration in Anna Wereszczuk's talk on the impacts of climate and environmental changes on mustelid body mass #35EMC