Once a familiar sight along Britain’s riverbanks, water voles now face extinction—thanks to a new predator. Can these promising conservation programs save them?

Colonies of the UK's fastest declining mammal species have been discovered in south Wales' uplands.

In Scotland a water vole becomes a triathlete - sprinting across a valley, swimming a loch and climbing a mountain to find a new home in which to raise her pups. Invasive American mink could kill ...

Water voles are Britain’s largest vole species, with a rounded face, blunt nose, small ears and dark brown or almost black fur. They can often be identified from the distinctive plop sound they ...

A policy to control invasive minks in Leicestershire and Rutland in a bid to protect water vole populations has been approved. On Friday, Leicestershire County Council's cabinet passed the plan to ...

The project, led by the INCC and funded by the Pen y Cymoedd Community Fund, surveyed numerous ditches, marshes, and peat bogs of the uplands from May 2024 and have so far found 20 new water vole ...