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Connecting with Nature: My experience volunteering for water voles
Annabelle Brittle shares the joy of volunteering for a worthwhile cause; protecting and diversifying water vole habitats with a group of like-minded people in the autumn sunshine.
Water vole
The water vole is under serious threat from habitat loss and predation by the American mink. Found along our waterways, it is similar-looking to the brown rat, but with a blunt nose, small ears…
What have water voles got to do with climate change?
I have become a detective; an investigator seeking clues; peering into burrows and carefully searching through grass and mud for one of the UK’s most elusive creatures, the water vole.
Troubling waters: what future for our ponds, lakes, rivers and canals?
Thousands of species - including otters, kingfishers, salmon, dippers, water voles, dragonflies and a myriad of smaller creatures on which they depend - rely on safe wetland habitats; as does a…
The Greenhouse Project: Spring
The Greenhouse Project: Autumn
A water vole? Really?
As part of 30 Days Wild my grandson Jacob and I have decided we will both do something each day and Jacob writes it on his poster calendar each night before bed.
Rafts for Ratty: new floating islands help to monitor water voles
Lancashire Wildlife Trust staff and volunteers at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve and Flood Storage Reservoir in Sefton have built nineteen small rafts to help keep an eye on one of the site’s more…