Captured for a tests last month , after government agency gave permission for them to be allowed to live free near Ottery St Mary , Devon . four adults and a juvenile were certified as free of disease , and will rejoin Four young kits which had remained on the River Otter . Ministers had wanted animals to be rounded up and put in a zoo . But Natural England in charge of wildlife , has decided they will instead be allowed to stay in the wild in the first project of its kind .
Captured for a tests last month , after government agency gave permission for them to be allowed to live free near Ottery St Mary , Devon . Four adults and a juvenile were certified as free of disease , and will rejoin four young kits which had remained on the River Otter . Ministers had wanted animals to be rounded up and put in a zoo . But Natural England in charge of wildlife , has decided they will instead be allowed to stay in the wild in the first project of its kind .