More than 100 water voles bred in captivity have been released into the wild in Nottinghamshire. The rodents - the fastest-declining mammal in England - were this week set free into their new home ...

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 ...

A water vole was famously depicted as 'Ratty' in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows More than 100 water voles, a mammal that is under serious threat from habitat loss, are to be released ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to investigate water voles, which are one of the rarest burrowing animals in the UK and an endangered species. He explains how they like to spend a lot of time ...

The North East water vole population has seen a "significant decline" over the last 20 years but there is a glimmer of hope. A new report from The Wildlife Trusts identifies continued decline in ...

Northumberland is one of the few areas bucking the trend as water vole populations continue to decline in the UK. The National Water Vole Database Project report by The Wildlife Trusts has identified ...