Dec. 15 (UPI) — Cleveland Metroparks announced a fisher — an animal related to weasels and ferrets — has been caught on camera in a city wildlife area for the first time in over a century.<\/p>\n
Cleveland Metroparks, a system of nature preserves across the Cleveland area, posted wildlife camera footage to social media<\/a> showing the fisher recorded on Metroparks land in Cuyahoga County earlier this year.<\/p>\n The Ohio Division of Wildlife said the footage marks the first confirmed fisher sighting in the county since the species was extirpated from the area in the mid-1800s.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n “This is tremendously exciting, as this is yet another extirpated native Ohio mammal species to be documented for the first time in Cleveland Metroparks,” Metroparks officials wrote on social media.<\/p>\n “The return of fishers and other extirpated species like otters, bobcats and trumpeter swans are a result of conservation efforts and emphasize the importance of our healthy forests, wetlands, waterways and natural areas in Cleveland Metroparks.<\/p>\n