Conservationists have reintroduced water voles into a river for the first time in more than 20 years. Herts and Middlesex ...
"Lovely animals." Volunteers celebrate return of creatures that disappeared decades ago: 'I couldn't be happier' first ...
There is hope a diet change for an endangered mammal can help smooth the transition between captivity and the wild. Water voles were a common sight at the start of the 20th Century and inspired the ...
More than 80 water voles are thriving at a wetlands reserve after they were reintroduced to halt the species' decline. The ...
The Miami Herald reported that a project led by the South Rivers Trust aims to reintroduce water voles to their native river ...
The woodland vole shows many adaptations for its burrowing lifestyle. The fur is short, soft, and silky, almost mole-like in texture. The front feet and claws are larger than those of its relatives.
Two companies who illegally destroyed a habitat for the UK's fastest-declining mammal species have agreed to fund an ecological survey to "make amends". The Environment Agency (EA) said it had ...
“Water voles — familiar to many as Ratty from The Wind in the Willows — are the UK’s fastest-declining mammal, lost from 94% of their former range,” the South East Rivers Trust said. “Their return to ...
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Researchers have discovered that bank voles in southern Sweden (Sk ne) carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. This finding was made more than 500 km south of the previously known ...