{"id":320283,"date":"2025-12-17T04:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320283\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:37:11","slug":"water-voles-spotted-in-river-thame-for-first-time-in-20-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320283\/","title":{"rendered":"Water voles spotted in River Thame for first time in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A different volunteer captured footage of a water vole swimming away from a mink monitoring raft deployed on the Chalgrove Brook, confirming that at least one animal there was alive and active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Jeffery, RTCT volunteer and Oxon Mammal Group treasurer, said regular &#8220;visitors&#8221; included a brown rat, wood mice and two otters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But one evening, a thousand clips later, I stopped &#8211; &#8216;what was that?&#8217; The face was more blunt than a rat, the ears and eyes not quite right. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Confirmed the next day, it was indeed a water vole, moving upstream at 01:00.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Jeffery said that brought &#8220;real hope that water voles are still clinging on and may one day repopulate the whole river system with our continued help&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A different volunteer captured footage of a water vole swimming away from a mink monitoring raft deployed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-320283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}