{"id":548077,"date":"2026-04-24T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548077\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:14:08","slug":"new-water-vole-populations-found-in-south-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548077\/","title":{"rendered":"New water vole populations found in South Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecologists from Yorkshire Water, the Sheffield &amp; Rotherham Wildlife Trust and River Connections, together with university researchers from Sheffield, Manchester and Stirling, have been monitoring vole activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust&#8217;s species officer, Luke Nelson, said: &#8220;As well as recording new vole sites in the uplands, we&#8217;ve been improving habitats by creating new pools and slowing the flow of water in upland streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Surveys have show that the water voles are quickly colonising these new habitats, hopefully leading to a more resilient and better-connected population.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Waterlife Recovery Trust, a charity set up to humanely remove mink from the British countryside, has also been working with Yorkshire Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity aims to eradicate mink within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ecologists from Yorkshire Water, the Sheffield &amp; Rotherham Wildlife Trust and River Connections, together with university researchers from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-548077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548077","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=548077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}