Water voles show signs of recovery on Hampshire's River Meon after 90% decline
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Jon Cuthill
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Volunteers are surveying the River Meon in Hampshire for water voles, Britain's fastest-declining mammal. The species has suffered a 90% population decline since the 1970s due to the spread of non-native American mink and habitat loss. However, regular surveys show a successful reintroduction program is helping the water vole's future look brighter on this river.
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· 3 pulledIt is estimated the spread of non native American mink saw 90% of water voles wiped out since the 1970s.
Together with the loss of habitat it now has the unenviable title of the fastest declining mammal in Britain.
But on the River Meon the future of the water vole is looking a little brighter.
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