Photo: Alistair Webb and Lisa Baker


on private land with good fox habitat .


Having the support of the land-owner is crit ical not only in terms of gaining permission to release them but we also need their help to feed the foxes over a four -eek ?


sof t release? process.


The f irst week is spent in their release cage (if they don?t escape), af ter which they are then released.


I always get a bit nervous on the night of the release as it could be the last t ime I see them. At dusk the pen door is opened, I scat ter the food around the pen and I walk away to leave them to it .


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and live as wild foxes back out in the wild. We support them for a further three weeks which gives them a lit t le more t ime to adjust to their new life which they do use.


Rober t Scr ivens, Wildlife Supervisor


5 s now down to the foxes to do their bit


Can you spot our fox sof t release cage?


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