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Report a Sighting

Have you seen an American mink or one of our target plant species?

Use the form below to report sightings of American mink, Giant hogweed, Japanese knotweed, Himalayan balsam, American skunk cabbage, White butterbur or Himalayan knotweed within our project area.

There are a number of ways to report sightings from outside our project area – and a number of organisations you can send records to. We’ve listed some of these here.

Using a mobile device? Click these links for easy access to the Invasive Plant or the American Mink reporting forms.

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What happens after you report a sighting?

We receive all your sightings and distribute them to our local teams.

For American mink – sightings within our Project Area (we cover Perthshire, Angus, Aberdeenshire, Moray and parts of the Highlands) will be distributed to our local teams. We will check whether we have rafts and/or traps operating in the area of the report and look to put traps in place if not.  We may contact you to see if you can help or for any further information about the sighting that might be useful to us.

Not sure if it was a mink? View the mink ID sheet.

 

For target invasive plant species – sightings within our Project Area (Perthshire, Angus, Aberdeenshire, Moray, parts of the Highlands) will be distributed to our local teams. We will check whether we are aware of the reported species in the area – if we already know the species is present, your record will inform our ongoing control work. If the record is new we will look to verify the sighting by visiting the site and/or contacting you for any further information.

If the sighting is within our remit (generally riparian corridors) we will follow up with control as part of our overall control programme. This response may not be immediately after your report to us. There are scenarios where we might not act – for example if plants are growing on the lower reaches of a river they may not be treated until the upper sections of river are under management to prevent re-infestion.  It is also not within our scope to treat plants alongside roads, in woodlands or on urban wasteland etc.