More than 200 water voles are released in restored habitat in Cumbria, having previously been wiped out.
More than 200 captive-bred water voles have been released at a secret location close to Haweswater, as part of an attempt to create a thriving population of the endangered species in Cumbria.
Conservationists and volunteers carried the semi-aquatic mammals to their new home in temporary soft-release pens, to allow them a few days to acclimatise.Nearly wiped out in recent decades, the species was widespread across the UK.Lake District welcomes reintroduction of water voles Volunteers will check the pens in the coming days, eventually removing them when the newly wild voles have moved into their own burrows.Haweswater ReserveAccording to the charity, in the past century the UK has seen an estimated water-vole population of eight million drop to about 132,000, as the species disappeared from 94% of the sites it had occupied.
One of the key projects in Haweswater has been controlling the population of American mink, first brought to Britain in the 1920s for fur farms.
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