Goodness, since our last blog, we have released a further 160 water voles back into Kielder Water & Forest Park!

We’ve had a fab month so far! Currently our project area is in Kielder Water and Forest Park. However, we do aim to cross the boundary because as we’ve come to discover, water voles don’t always…

May & June are busy months for us. We’re enjoying surveying, plodging about in streams and burns before the midges start feeding off us! Water voles are thoughtful creatures, and it’s only…

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…