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2:50pm April 8, 2013
rhamphotheca: Water vole ladder link to help isolated colony by Michelle Warwicker Isolated water voles in London are being provided with miniature ladders to encourage them to venture further afield. The wooden “superhighways” will allow voles to cross over high, vertical edges along the Grand Union Canal to reach new territories. Conservationists hope the ladders could eventually be used nationwide to help genetically-isolated water voles on the UK’s canals to meet and mix with other populations. The ladders are being installed as part of a conservation project by the Canal and River Trust, which aims to reverse the dramatic decline in the UK’s water voles in recent years. They are being used for a small colony of water voles living at Hanwell Lock Flight, Ealing. But if successful, the ladders could be rolled out nationally as a new way of helping voles travel across canal banks… (read more: BBC Nature)                 (photo: PhotoLibrary)

rhamphotheca:

Water vole ladder link to help isolated colony

by Michelle Warwicker

Isolated water voles in London are being provided with miniature ladders to encourage them to venture further afield.

The wooden “superhighways” will allow voles to cross over high, vertical edges along the Grand Union Canal to reach new territories. Conservationists hope the ladders could eventually be used nationwide to help genetically-isolated water voles on the UK’s canals to meet and mix with other populations.

The ladders are being installed as part of a conservation project by the Canal and River Trust, which aims to reverse the dramatic decline in the UK’s water voles in recent years.

They are being used for a small colony of water voles living at Hanwell Lock Flight, Ealing. But if successful, the ladders could be rolled out nationally as a new way of helping voles travel across canal banks…

(read more: BBC Nature)                 (photo: PhotoLibrary)

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