Simon talks about his career with coypu, mink and other animals.  I was born in Northamptonshire and, I suppose like most boys, I liked being outdoors. We had a family farm around where I lived, knew most of the people in the village, and I did things that you probably wouldn’t do now, like egg-collecting, […]

Ivan shares his memories of his time as a coypu trapper for Coypu Control on the East Anglian marshes. He details some background on coypu, the work involved with trapping, and the wonders of the marshes while working through all weather situations. I was a shopkeeper working 60 odd hours a week for the taxman […]

Paul talks about his life as a coypu trapper, working on the marshes and the ten year eradication programme. He could have been the last Norfolk trapper to catch a coypu in Norfolk, in 1986. When I left school I wanted to be a gamekeeper, but unfortunately gamekeeper positions were few and far between. I applied […]

Kurt worked at the Coypu Research Laboratory in Norwich, and he describes his work out on the marshes and the waterways. I came to Norfolk from Wales. I swapped the hills and valleys of Wales for flat lands of Norfolk and the big sky and that would be in 1972. I started at the Coypu […]

Jennie started working for the Coypu Research Laboratory in 1979, she was one of three trappers and the only lady. She tells us about working on the marshes and the wonderful characters that she met. I started work for the Coypu Research Laboratory in 1979. I was one of three trappers and the only lady. […]