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Shobna Gulati, star of Coronation Street and former Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Manchester presenter, travelled across the North West to see some of the projects in place to help our endangered wildlife.

A young polecat, aged 8-12 weeks

Shobna finds out more about a scheme to protect polecats in Cheshire. The polecat is one of our last remaining carnivorous mammals. Closely related to the domestic ferret, it’s a fierce predator that was once almost trapped into extinction by farmers and gamekeepers.

The RSPCA’s Stapeley Grange Animal Rescue Centre near Nantwich in Cheshire specialises in re-introducing orphaned polecats back into the wild.

ΜύShobna watched as a polecat was put under general anaesthetic so that RSPCA officer, Rob Scriven, could fit it with a tracking device.

The polecat's return