THE water vole, one of Britain’s most endangered species, is to be given a new home at a “green” business park which is being created in Liverpool.
A team of conservation experts plan to release 25 water voles into Stonebridge Park, a business park with office and light industrial space created by Liverpool Land Development Company in Gillmoss.
The business park incorporates lakes and watercourses linked to the River Alt and its Sugarbrook tributary, making it an ideal ecological habitat for the water vole.
Having been bred and reared in a secure environment within the confines of Chester Zoo, the water voles will be transported in individual cages to Stonebridge, and released at regular intervals into the special man-made burrows along the park’s central waterway.
The burrows will provide temporary accommodation while the voles familiarise themselves with life in the wild. The conservation team expects the voles to build their own burrows once they are settled, and believes the young mammals will have all the skills to thrive in the wild.
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