由14岁少女Eva Wishart和Emily Smith发起的Wild Pets项目计划招募20名德文郡儿童在家中饲养收获鼠，以供野生动物放归之用1。该项目已于2025年获得威廉王子初级地球奖提名1，并获得自然保护专家Derek Gow、德文郡环境基金会、中德文郡区议会和Naturesave信托基金的支持1。
两位创始人已在自家车库成功繁育了数百只收获鼠，并在德文郡自然保护区进行了放归，这些鼠已在野外繁殖1。项目计划在明年春季对年龄在8至13岁的儿童进行培训，并向参与者提供鼠类和设备1。项目的目标是明年9月放归250只收获鼠1。Chris Packham在BBC Springwatch节目中将这一项目称为"真正意义上的壮举"1。
A conservation initiative called Wild Pets is recruiting twenty children in Devon to breed harvest mice at home for eventual release into the wild.1 The project was founded by fourteen-year-old girls Eva Wishart and Emily Smith, who have already demonstrated the program's viability by successfully rearing hundreds of harvest mice in their garage and releasing them into a Devon nature reserve, where the animals have subsequently bred in the wild.1
The initiative has garnered significant support from conservation experts and environmental organizations.1 Chris Packham praised the scheme on BBC Springwatch, calling it "a genuine feat."1 The project has received backing from naturalist Derek Gow, the Devon Environmental Foundation, Mid Devon District Council, and the Naturesave Trust.1 It has also earned a nomination for the Prince William Award for Young Conservationists in 2025.1
Children aged eight to thirteen will be trained and provided with mice and necessary equipment beginning next spring, with a target to release two hundred fifty mice by September of the following year.1
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