Overview

• Project teams released nine females and ten males in September at confidential woodland sites on National Trust and Exmoor National Park Authority land.
• The animals were sourced from healthy wild populations in the Scottish Highlands, health-checked, and transported overnight more than 500 miles.
• Each marten spent several days in an individual acclimatisation pen before release and now carries a radio collar designed to drop off after six to nine months.
• The translocation was licensed by NatureScot and Natural England and delivered by the Two Moors Pine Marten Project partnership with National Lottery Heritage Fund support.
• The Exmoor effort builds on a Dartmoor reintroduction in 2024 that recorded kits in July 2025, with autumn timing chosen to leverage seasonal food and set up potential breeding next year.