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British water vole population slumps by more than one-fifth, survey finds

2013-09-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The crystal-clear water races over the stones, a heron cries and the smell of wild mint rises on the warm air. But there is one thing missing from this bucolic scene: the telltale swish of the reeds or sudden liquid plop that betrays a water vole. The creature immortalised as Ratty in The Wind in the Willows is vanishing from the British countryside, with the population slumping by more than onefifth, according to a new five-year survey. On the banks of the River Chess in the Chilterns,...

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