Water voles spotted in River Thame for first time in 20 years (www.bbc.com)

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A conservation team has confirmed sightings of Britain's fastest-declining mammal, the water vole, in a river's catchment area for the first time in nearly 20 years.

River Thame Conservation Trust (RTCT) volunteers captured video evidence of the species at two sites - on the River Thame near Chearsley, Buckinghamshire, and another on the Chalgrove Brook in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire.

The footage was gathered using motion-sensor wildlife cameras placed across the catchment area and is part of the trust's long-running monitoring project to detect signs of water voles and other key river species.

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[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

This little guys must have eaten so many blades of grass to reach this stature.

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