In our latest Countryfile column, Erin McDaid of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust discusses work to put water voles on the road ...

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. The genome was ...

WATER voles are making a healthy comeback in part of Hampshire. A survey by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust shows the species is thriving at St Clair’s Meadow Nature Reserve along the River ...

Self-made monitoring boxes are being used to track the declining numbers of water voles in Shropshire. The number of water voles nationally are in free fall, with more than 90 per cent of them lost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 5, 2026, in East Yorkshire, UK, a heron slid across icy water at Blacktoft Sands, allowing a water vole to escape.

Rare water voles, which are "of national importance", have been relocated from a site in Glasgow's East End, ahead of drainage work by Scottish Water. Unlike their "cousins", the more familiar aquatic ...