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Teenagers seek families to rear harvest mice for Devon release
Original: Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon By Patrick Barkham Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emi
Two teenagers, Eva Wishart and Emily Smith, have launched a project to breed and release 250 harvest mice in Devon by September, and are looking for children to rear the tiny animals at home. The citizen-conservation scheme, reported by Patrick Barkham in the Guardian, invites young volunteers to help raise the mice before their wild release, aiming to boost local populations of one of Britain's smallest mammals.
Why now: The unusual invitation for children to hand-rear wild mice at home is a charming, novel conservation story drawing attention.
Eva WishartEmily SmithDevonharvest micethe Guardian
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- Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon By Patrick Barkham Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September https://www. theguardian.com/environment/20… · guardianfeeds@rssfeed.media · 8
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