The woodland vole shows many adaptations for its burrowing lifestyle. The fur is short, soft, and silky, almost mole-like in texture. The front feet and claws are larger than those of its relatives.

Two companies who illegally destroyed a habitat for the UK's fastest-declining mammal species have agreed to fund an ...

There is hope a diet change for an endangered mammal can help smooth the transition between captivity and the wild. Water ...

A brand new population of water voles have been released at a nature reserve in Devon. 82 water voles were introduced to the ...

This slender vole has relatively prominent, rounded ears, and long coarse fur, buffy to yellowish gray on the sides and silvery gray on the underparts of the body. The bicolored (dark brown above and ...

Water voles have been reintroduced to the River Lea for the first time in 20 years. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust reintroduced 100 of the threatened mammals to a stretch of the Upper River Lea, ...

Dozens of water voles have been reintroduced into waterways in parts of southern England after being declared locally extinct over the last 20 years. Some 150 water voles were released last month at ...

We think of squirrels as adorably harmless creatures, admiring their bushy tails and twitchy little noses and the way they cram their cheeks with nuts or seeds to bring back to their nests for later.

A £500,000 project to improve the environment at Green Farm near Worcester has seen the return of many species of plants, ...

I knew our yard was in trouble during one of my many snow shoveling sessions this winter. What I uncovered with the snowblower was alarming. Like many of us, I cleared the snow away from the driveway ...

Researchers have discovered that bank voles in southern Sweden (Sk ne) carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. This finding was made more than 500 km south of the previously known ...