Article: We're wild about our water voles.(News Local)

Article: A legal boost for water voles ; Efforts to ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  April 7, 2008 ;     389 words ...Efforts to reintroduce the endangered water vole to rivers like the Exe are under way after the creatures received ... imprisonment. Mr Newman said : "We have had protection for the water vole's habitats but not for the animals themselves." He is ...

Article: Water voles are welcome sight on Somerset levels ; ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 4, 2008 ;     414 words ...The water vole has made a comeback on the Somerset Levels ... mink, which caused a depletion of the water vole and other species. Already, co-ordinated ... has reaped significant benefits for the water vole. "The once common and widespread creature ...

Article: Vole lot of work going on at river; Don't call them ratty! ...
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  August 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... increase numbers of water voles in North Tyneside ... habitats. The water vole, which lives ... found. Other water vole sites include ... residents see water voles they contact ... stream haven for water voles. A water vole, top, is often ...

Article: Work begins to entice water voles to county ; A shy ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 13, 2008 ;     681 words ... ... project to coax water voles back to the region. The water vole was immortalised ... rapid decline of the water vole in recent years ... were two million. Water voles' disappearance ... reintroduce the water vole includes the coppicing ...

Article: Ratty's return: towns and cities offer refuge to the threatened ...
The Independent on Sunday;  April 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... crucial refuge for water voles - offering them ... blamed for decimating water vole numbers in Britain. Water voles are mink's favourite ... reintroduced hundreds of water voles into urban nature ... Chris Strachan, the water vole project officer ...

Article: Ratty's a VIP of our rivers; GO GREEN: If we don't, we're all in ...
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  October 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... remaining lowland water vole populations north ... and widespread, water voles have suffered a ... was actually a water vole. Formerly found throughout Britain water voles are confined mainly ... ideal habitat for water voles and is currently ... the endangered ...

Article: Borderers asked to help find water voles.
Berwickshire Advertiser (Berwick upon Tweed, England);  July 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... focus of the Tweed Water Vole Initiative is now ... historical sightings of water voles in the Tweed catchment ... known that the water vole was historically ... 1873 "A white water vole was caught by a ... isolated colonies of water voles that surveys have ...