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Saving Planet EarthYou are in: Manchester > Saving Planet Earth > Saving the polecats  Shobna Gulati Saving the polecatsIt was trapped to the brink of extinction - but with a little help, the polecat is making a comeback. As part of the 麻豆社 Saving Planet Earth series, Shobna Gulati investigates a scheme to return polecats to the wild in Cheshire.
Shobna Gulati, star of Coronation Street and former 麻豆社 Radio Manchester presenter, travelled across the North West to see some of the projects in place to help our endangered wildlife. ![An orphaned polecat [pic: Rob Scrivens]](/staticarchive/87fda61f0a7cda1e5012fcb51e610a2aeccff3f4.jpg) 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鈥檚 a fierce predator that was once almost trapped into extinction by farmers and gamekeepers. The RSPCA鈥檚 Stapeley Grange Animal Rescue Centre near Nantwich in Cheshire specialises in re-introducing orphaned polecats back into the wild. 听Shobna 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 returnMore about polecats: more on the Northwich rehabilitation of orphaned polecats and why polecats were nearly hunted to extinction in the UK last updated: 06/07/07 SEE ALSOYou are in: Manchester > Saving Planet Earth > Saving the polecats [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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