Almost £500,000 is being invested to support the species
A project aiming to bring back Nottinghamshire 's water vole population has reached an "exciting" stage. More than 100 captive voles were released into Idle Valley Nature Reserve, near Retford , earlier this week as part of the project, which will see £491,740 invested in a range of measures to restore and create wetland habitats to support the species.
Gary Cragg, Nottinghamshire water vole project manager, said: “Our beaver enclosure at the Idle Valley Nature Reserve provides a unique setting to establish an ark site for water voles to enable us to bring these important and valuable mammals back. In time, we hope they will disperse from the ark site across the whole 375 hectares of the reserve and along the River Idle.
This local evidence, plus continued pressure on water vole populations across the UK and their recent extinction in some counties, underlines that urgent and concerted action is needed to prevent this charismatic and important mammal from being lost from Nottinghamshire.
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust’s head of nature recovery Janice Bradley said: “The evidence is stark and clear, without urgent action, the future for water voles in our county is bleak and we risk losing this much-loved species forever from Nottinghamshire.
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