“I think it’s just fantastic that in 2023 we can still rediscover species.
“All of our stories around conservation are doom and gloom.
“Here we have an opportunity to say that, actually, there are opportunities to make change.”
Subsequently, the team recovered four golden moles including De Winton’s mole, which had been a hard task at first, because it had been hard to tell them apart, as they are genetically quite similar.