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Launched in 2021, the five-year £4.5m the LIFE Raft project, which runs until the autumn, has been working to eradicate rats and ferrets from the island off the north coast.

Now the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), who run the project, have said they are "optimistic" the ferret population on Rathlin has been eradicated.

"To date, there has been 98 ferrets caught, and from November 2023 there have been no confirmed ferret sightings," the project's fieldwork manager Michael Rafferty told Causeway Coast and Glens council earlier this week.

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