We enjoyed our first day of spring monitoring yesterday to determine how our voles fared over the winter, signs were disappointing, and we felt a little down-hearted, but we did find prints on a…

Today was the last day of winter monitoring, in two weeks’ time, we shall be deploying approximately 20 more rafts to help us survey over a larger area. As well as our fabulous team of volunteers…

You may have seen in the press this week the news about the decline in water vole populations across England and Wales. This comes from the England and Wales Water Vole Database and Mapping…

Over the winter we have been preparing for our next releases, organizing our events and School programs and repairing a new bird hide ready to install on the forest drive.

We are currently working closely with Forestry Commission to pinpoint areas for our next water vole release in 2018. This does seem to be very early as the next release is not until June, but we…

This frosty photo was taken whilst out raft monitoring last winter, when we discovered that whilst checking rafts in the freezing cold weather is beautiful; its also pretty futile as the clay…

A large part of our project involves working with schools; we are rolling out a 3 way school partnership where the schools can learn from each other. We are lucky to be able to work with other…

320 water voles are returned to Kielder Water & Forest Park after the best part of 30 years!

Bringing water voles back to Kielder.

Restoring Ratty staff and volunteers visited our water vole contractors Derek Gow Consultancy in Devon to see our water voles and learn more about the breeding and release process.