Article: A vole in one for wildlife after golf course destruction; Landowner fined for damaging rare rodent site.

Article: Water voles 'wiped out' at Union Canal
Evening News - Scotland;  September 9, 2002 ;     489 words ...WATER voles may have been wiped ... isolated populations of water voles left in West Lothian ... near Bathgate Golf Course. The trust has ... members at Bathgate Golf Course heard reports that ... check, they were water voles. This mistake happens ...

Article: Comeback for water voles as the Army helps out
Yorkshire Post;  August 15, 2007 ;     635 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 ;     632 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 ...

Article: 'Ratty' holds his own in N Lincs ; Despite their cuteness, ...
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph;  March 11, 2008 ;     605 words ...Despite their cuteness, water voles are the UK's fastest declining ... healthy and widespread populations of water voles, populations which could be significant ... apparent how quickly colonies of water voles can be lost." The creatures are ...

Article: Work begins to entice water voles to county ; A shy ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 13, 2008 ;     681 words ... ... residents can help a project to coax water voles back to the region. The water vole ... Conservationists hope the work could see water voles returning to rivers such as the Exe ... Earlier this year it was announced water voles would get full legal protection under ...

Article: Vole lot of work going on at river; Don't call them ratty! ...
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  August 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... project is underway to increase numbers of water voles in North Tyneside by improving their ... being a creature of the countryside, water voles are often found in urban areas, which ... knew we had to take action to get the water voles back into the areas where they previously ...