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A new tool to help conserve one of the UK's most threatened mammals has been released today, with the publication of the first high-quality reference genome for the European water vole.

A new tool to help conserve one of the UK's most threatened mammals has been released today, with the publication of the first high-quality reference genome for the European water vole.

By reintroducing water voles to their former habitats, conservationists hope to also restore balance to the ecosystem. (A Yellowstone for Europe? Inside the bold effort to rewild the continent.) ...

Roisin Black, a National Trust ranger at Malham Tarn, said: "In the rest of Europe, water voles are common. In Britain, the creatures are incredibly rare. Image source, National Trust Images ...

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute have sequenced the genome – a complete set of genetic instructions – of the European water vole (Arvicola amphibius), a semi-aquatic rodent under ...

A single breeding mink can eliminate an entire water vole colony. No mink have been seen near Malham Tarn for 10 years. Roisin Black, a National Trust ranger, said: "In the rest of Europe ...

and that the money will be used to support species such as water vole, otter, wild brown trout and European eel. Chloe Edwards, the trust's director of nature recovery, said: "We know that one in ...

European water voles were once a common sight across northern England, but the rodent made famous as ‘Ratty’ in Kenneth Grahame’s classic story ‘The Wind In The Willows’ has now been ...

So Ratty was renamed Water Vole, and a European Water Vole at that. Had his world-famous author ever realised the difference between a water rat and a bog standard rodent? Ratty’s aquatic status ...

Roisin Black, a National Trust ranger at Malham Tarn, said: "In the rest of Europe, water voles are common. In Britain, the creatures are incredibly rare. Image source, National Trust Images ...