Read the latest positive news, breakthroughs, and inspiring stories about water voles, curated daily by BrightWire.
Water voles are splashing back into the River Wey after vanishing for two decades, marking a major win for Britain's fastest-declining mammal. The beloved species, known as "Ratty" from The Wind in the Willows, is finally coming home.
A conservation group in Shropshire is using homemade monitoring boxes with trap cameras to track water voles, a species that's lost 90% of its population since the 1970s. The innovative approach could help protect these "ecosystem engineers" across the UK.