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Vole Victory
Five years ago, the water vole earned the unfortunate moniker of ‘Britain’s fastest declining mammal’. But conservationists are not giving up on ‘Ratty’ – recent years have seen thousands of individuals restored to riverbanks up and down the country. Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead reports from one such project in Cornwall, where water voles are now back for the first time in 25 years.