A vole lot of trouble for rodent homes
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to help protect the habitat of water voles living in East Lothian.

Voles force windfarm rethink
A COLONY of water voles is set to cost the Harrods boss Mohamed al-Fayed £1 million on his Scottish estate.

Water vole faces extinction
THE common Scottish water vole is being wiped out by predatory American mink that are sweeping across the countryside, a conservation expert warned yesterday.

Key to monogamy found in little mouse on the prairie
GALLIVANTING males with a similar degree of sexual restraint to Rasputin may soon be able to seek genetic help in curtailing their polygamous tendencies.

Water voles get a life-raft help to keep mink at bay
THE tiny water vole was immortalised in print as the clever and resourceful Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's children's classic, The Wind in the Willows.

Developer to rescue voles
UP TO 100 water voles are to be moved from the site of a huge, new West Lothian housing development at a cost of £100,000. The endangered creatures are to removed from the Polkemmet colliery site as part of a £51 million clean-up operation.

Move to get plans out of a vole
£100,000 is to be spent shifting endangered water voles from a former coal mine site in West Lothian to make way for a housing development.

Water voles develop a taste for the high life
IT IS most famously depicted living a life of ease among the rustling leaves of willow trees on the sleepy banks of English rivers.

Colony set to protect voles
A BID to protect one of Britain's most endangered native animal species from regional extinction gets under way today.

Now for the vole story
A PREVIOUSLY unknown colony of water voles has been found on a wildlife reserve in West Lothian.

Water voles thriving on loch's bank
RATTY is a "worthy fellow, with many good qualities, but very little intelligence and absolutely no education".

City student finds rare beasts voled up at loch
ONE of Britain's most endangered animals has been found thriving on a Scottish reserve by an Edinburgh University student.

Voles killed in rat mix-up
THE UK's fastest declining mammal, the water vole, is being poisoned due to its similarity to the brown rat, wildlife campaigners said today.

Water voles ?wiped out? at canal
WATER voles have been wiped out along the Union Canal in West Lothian it is feared after a survey by a leading wildlife group.

Colonies of rare water voles find Lothian to their liking
SEVERAL colonies of the rare water vole have been discovered in the Lothians, it was revealed today.



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