Voles are rodents that closely resemble mice or hamsters. They are often called field mice because of their tendency to ...

Voles can cause damage to lawns by eating patches and creating little tracks through them. They can also damage newly planted ...

Made famous by Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, water voles are often described as 'nature's engineers'. | ITV News ...

By adopting a water vole, it will not only help the charity further its ‘mission to make water voles a common sight once more’ along Cumbrian rivers, but also support their wider work to ‘enhance and ...

The Wellcome Sanger Institute estimates that in 1990, there were around 7.3 million water voles in the UK, with populations widespread across Greater London. But since then, habitat loss ...

Voles are small mammals that tend to have large heads, compact bodies, and short noses. Microtus means “small ear” and the voles of this genus have short ears that barely protrude from the fur ...

More than 200 captive-bred water voles have been released at a secret location close to Haweswater, as part of an attempt to create a thriving population of the endangered species in Cumbria.

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 ...