Sentences with phrase «water voles»

Rosy's garden, her first ever show garden, was designed to draw attention to the plight of the last 200 natural chalk streams around the world, streams such as the River Test which provide a perfectly balanced habitat for insects, water plants, mammals such as water voles and otters, fish, crayfish and birds.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

A major initiative to save water voles has been launched after experts warned that they could become extinct in parts of North Wales in the next ten years.

Mink are an introduced and highly predatory species which represents the main threat to water voles and other native wildlife where the habitat is suitable.

«But the fact is the green philosophy and way of looking at the world to my mind produces an inevitable kind of economics as well as inevitable view of what should be done about water voles and forests and things like that.

Photos of water voles are available, for more information please contact the BASC press office on 01244 573031

The same brook was surveyed again this year but this time he found 12 latrines, four burrows and numerous piles of feeding remains, all positive field signs of water voles active in the area.

Conservationists have found new evidence that the endangered water vole has returned to a large section of the river Gowy.

Back Brook, a tributary of the River Gowy, was surveyed by Richard Gardner, northwest lowlands water vole officer in July 2008 and he found no evidence of water voles.

It is one of the main reasons why water vole numbers have plummeted in recent years, making them Britain's fastest declining mammal.

In Conwy, existing water vole populations are being protected by maintaining their mink - free status through the use of mink rafts, supplied by Conwy Council through the Conwy Habitat Improvement Scheme.

If we do not act now, the water vole will be gone within 10 years from much of North Wales.»

* The other top achievements of BASC's Green Shoots programme in Cheshire include the recovery of the water vole population on the River Gowy by trapping and humanely dispatching mink.

Also present were fossils of a water vole Mimomys, which was superseded by another vole species called Arvicola around 500,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

The two researchers gave pair - bonded voles either water, or alcohol and water.

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