{"id":747024,"date":"2026-08-23T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:04:09","slug":"funding-boost-to-help-restore-water-vole-population-in-nottinghamshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747024\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding boost to help restore water vole population in Nottinghamshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildlife charity hopes funding of \u00a3760,000 will help the water vole population in Nottinghamshire to &#8220;thrive again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust said it had secured government funding for its initiatives to bring back water voles and prepare for the return of beavers to the county. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of the funding will be used to &#8220;eradicate&#8221; non-native mink in Nottinghamshire, which the charity said threatened vole populations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the trust said recovering voles and wild beavers will benefit other plants and animals in the county that depend on healthy wetlands and river systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the wildlife charity, water vole populations in the county have decreased by about 90% in the past 15 years due to a rise in non-native mink species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Janice Bradley, director of recovery at the trust, said it had received more than \u00a3600,000 for a project to prepare for the return of beavers in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are currently no wild beavers in the county, only enclosed beaver populations, Bradley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition, \u00a3160,000 has been awarded for a water vole recovery project from Natural England&#8217;s Species Recovery Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife charity hopes funding of \u00a3760,000 will help the water vole population in Nottinghamshire to &#8220;thrive again&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-747024","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\/747024","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=747024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}