Top tips on how to find Water Voles

In this Eco How, we show you how to look for the little signs that Water Voles leave behind and start you on your way to becoming a water vole identification expert!
PLEASE NOTE: The 2020 NWVMP has been cancelled but you can still brush up on your ID skills for next year!
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The water vole is the UK’s most rapidly declining mammal and has been lost from 94% of places where they were once prevalent.
Although cancelled this year due to COVID-19, you can help Water Voles by taking part in the National Water Vole Monitoring Programme that runs from 5 April until 15 June every year. So why not brush up on your ID skills and do your part in 2021, by helping conservationists understand how UK Water Vole populations are doing ► bit.ly/3hB9m2e
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[@CharlieYoungMarineScientist]

Yeeeeew!! ☺️💙

[@kathrynhopkins]

Gorgeous creatures. We had one in our garden recently as we live very close to a nature reserve which has a river. It worries me that the general public mistake them for rats and poison them (not that I support the killing of rats happy to co-exist with them personally). Wish people were more informed.

[@IanPhillipsWildlife]

How wonderful to have one in your garden! The two populations I watched as a kid in the early 80s are long gone, one due to poison, one due to mink, its so sad. Now I'm lucky enough to live near a health population in London.