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Campaign urges farmers to help save the water vole

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20051129
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Lizzie Murphy

THEY were immortalised as Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows - and now a campaign is under way to save the water vole, which has become a fast declining mammal in Yorkshire.

Water pollution, persecution, an increase in predators like the American mink, and the dredging and draining of natural wetlands have all contributed to their acute decline over the last 30 years.

It is estimated that 96 per cent of the British population has disappeared over this time, making the water vole the fastest declining mammal species in Europe. Now the Environment Agency ...

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