Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. Once commonly found across south Wales, water voles are now effectively extinct in all but a few ...

Water voles are good swimmers and the 'plop' of them diving into rivers used to be a much-loved sound in the UK countryside. They dive in the water when disturbed and kick up mud as a smoke screen ...

Water voles often bring their food to the water's edge and leave the chewed up remains in neat piles which ecologists use to monitor their eating patterns. 'Gruesome scene' Mr Randall, who carried out ...

The water vole was once common in waterways across Britain. It is sometimes mistaken for a brown rat, though it has a chubbier face, smaller ears and a shorter, furrier tail. When Grahame wrote his ...

Water voles have developed a penchant for one of the most rarefied delicacies of French cuisine – frogs' legs – conservationists have discovered.

Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. Once commonly found across south Wales, water voles are now effectively extinct in all but a few ...

It might sound like a fun idea, but Mr Parry and his team could not be more serious. If they can track where water voles are located in the wild, they can make adjustments to the environment ...