Article: Bid to save water voles.(News)

Article: Scheme to help water voles lands boost
Aberdeen Evening Express;  October 8, 2007 ;     330 words ...A Project to help save water voles in the North-east has expanded. The Cairngorms Water Vole Conservation Project ... Heritage and run by Aberdeen University. The number of water voles has drastically declined since the 1950s - mainly due to ...

Article: Brighter future for water voles.
Morpeth Herald (Morpeth, England);  February 29, 2008 ;     594 words ... ... organisations working to protect water voles in Northumberland have ... legislation is great news for water voles and will help us in our ... are not lost from the North East region. The Environment ... protect this species. Water voles have undergone a catastrophic ...

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 by ... is if residents see water voles they contact us. We ... charismatic species in the North East. We are working with ... habitat suitable for water voles. If you would like ...

Article: Water voles get a life-raft help to keep mink at ...
The Scotsman;  May 10, 2004 ;     437 words ... ... in the Willows. Three of the North-east of Scotland's main rivers ... innovative scheme, funded by the North-east Local Biodiversity Action Plan ... Laura Taylor, a specialist in water voles, has already begun working with ...

Article: Comeback for water voles as the Army helps out
Yorkshire Post;  August 15, 2007 ;     627 words ... ... habitat in Yorkshire. In the early 1990s water voles were a common sight and sound in and ... animal rights protesters. The number of water voles nationally has been decimated because ... Britain's fastest-declining mammal. Water voles have disappeared from more than 90 per ...

Article: Water voles rescued by their old friends from the ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 18, 2006 ;     611 words ... ... catastrophic decline in the number of water voles on our riverbanks. But salvation is ... otters are proving to be 'friends' of water voles in real life. A study, carried out ... able to catch prey. Otters also target water voles but struggle to catch them, which has ...

Article: Water voles are brought to brink of extinction by ...
The Independent - London;  May 1, 2000 ;     649 words ...WATER VOLES, the creatures which inspired the character ... The number of sites which are home to water voles has dropped by nearly 70 per cent across ... their enemies in the much-loved book, water voles are threatened by American mink which ...