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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chris butterworth" data-source="post: 3162302" data-attributes="member: 64315"><p>As Pine Martin are ( if left to their own devices ) fairly catholic in their choice of habitat, any area with food and cover would be suitable.  Beech Martin, although slightly larger and less reliant on trees, are an urban animal in parts of its range, as has been noted in previous posts.  Japanese Martin is regular in sub-urban parks, provided there are mature trees.  Pine Martin are attractive and, over time, can become reasonably habituated to humans so releases in some of the larger urban / sub-urban parks could be a way forward, with the added advantage the "I've got a big gun, and a little willy" brigade couldn't get at them.</p></blockquote><p></p>