Sustainability, wildlife and general musings.
This Friday the National Trust are set to release 100 water voles onto a Yorskhire estate as part of a reintroduction plan. The voles have been bred specifically for release and are part of wider, landscape management plan that hopes to make the environment healthier and return it to a more natural state.
An endangered species of fish known as the lamprey has returned to UK rivers for the first time since the 1800’s. ( although a dead lamprey was found in the Thames in 2009.) What does this mean for wildlife in the UK though? Well it… Continue Reading “Return of the Lamprey”
Many years ago I saw a mink. It was scurrying up the opposite riverbank and I got a quick look at it. All terribly exciting at the time but fortunately not something that I have seen again. Mink are very much the enemy nowadays… Continue Reading “Mink and water voles”