Plan to track for signs of endangered water vole
A new initiative in Shropshire aims to monitor the declining population of water voles using self-made conservation boxes. Funded by a £1,500 grant, the project will help assess local water vole numbers compared to national trends. The long-term goal is to protect and improve their habitats, which have been severely depleted.
- ▪The number of water voles in the UK has decreased by over 90% since the 1970s.
- ▪The Shropshire Mammal Group is using monitoring boxes to track water voles in the region.
- ▪The project aims to build eight monitoring boxes to gather data on the species' presence.
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Plan to track for signs of endangered water voleJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleCharlie Stubbsin Church StrettonCharlie Stubbs / BBCStuart Edmunds came up with the prototype for the conservation boxesSelf-made monitoring boxes are being used to track the declining numbers of water voles in Shropshire.The number of water voles nationally are in free fall, with more than 90 per cent of them lost since the 1970s, the Mammal Society said.To combat this, the Shropshire Mammal Group has been tracking the endangered species using the boxes, funded by a £1,500 grant from Shropshire Hills National Landscape.
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