A new tool to help conserve one of the UK's most threatened mammals has been released today, with the publication of the first high-quality reference genome for the European water vole. A new tool to ...

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 ...

Conservationists have reintroduced water voles into a river for the first time in more than 20 years. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust said they had returned 100 water voles to a stretch of the ...

Dozens of water voles have been reintroduced into waterways in parts of southern England after being declared locally extinct over the last 20 years. Some 150 water voles were released last month at ...

People in Devon are being urged to take part in a national survey of water voles by a wildlife charity. The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is looking for volunteers for its National ...

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 ...

A water vole is checked before being placed into a holding pen (Andrew Matthews/PA) Dozens of water voles have been reintroduced into waterways in parts of southern England after being declared ...

Dozens of water voles have been reintroduced into waterways in parts of southern England after being declared locally extinct over the last 20 years. The species, made famous by “Ratty” in The Wind In ...