Words that strike fear into a water vole observer's heart: "My dog has caught two rats during walks. It's a ratter!" Many people cannot tell the difference between a water vole (on left) and rat (on right). Please see our quick guide for the differences: watervole.org.uk/about/

"There are reliable eyewitness accounts of both cat predation at the Avenue End site (Geraldine O’Donnell, pers comm) and dog predation (Robyn Stewart, pers. ob.) and it is likely that domestic pets are responsible for a number of water vole fatalities." theses.gla.ac.uk/6973/1/2015Ste…

"If the question is: do we have raw sewage spilling straight into rivers in the Severn Trent patch, then no, we definitely don’t." Said Liv Garfield CEO of Severn Trent fined over £2m for dumping sewage into the River Trent, what the court referred to as a "reckless failure". 🤔🤬

River restoration on the river Wensum. A short video showing the work that has been done and the end result. 8 hectares of the floodplain were restored, 4 ponds and 1100 meters of channel were created. With Norfolk Rivers Trust & Environment Agency

We keep finding #plastic fibres in our "pristine" #chalkstream samples😖 Depressing stuff. Look. Compare the size of #microplastic to the invertebrate. #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust WildFish #SmartRivers Wessex Rivers Trust

#Volunteers are monitoring #mink footprints on our #chalkstreams They are #InvasiveNonNativeSpecies that predate (amongst other things) #WaterVole , Britain's fastest declining mammal. #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #INNS

I see this beehive every year! The bees are busy now 😍 collecting pollen from #ChalkStream pussy willows and plants 🐝 #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #insect

Chitty chatty Cetti on a chalkstream 😆 #CettisWarbler #River #Chalkstream #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

MOST EXCELLENT NEWS!!! So important + something we're working up on #WatercressAndWinterbournes on the #RiverTest and #RiverItchen Timely article in British Wildlife Mag Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust South Downs National Park The National Lottery Heritage Fund Wessex Rivers Trust #watervole #rivers #INNS #mink

Busy day IN THE 🌞🌞🌞 1. Put out a #mink raft 2. Supported Riverfly Partnership volunteers (kit drop) 3. Planned #volunteer workparties. Nice 2 see our footpath has really bedded in 😍 #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #chalkstream

Beautiful afternoon with the Candover Valley Farmers hearing about chalkstreams, nitrates and white-clawed crayfish #fwagse #fwagsoutheast #candovervalleycluster #Farming #wildlife #countryside

News for fans of #WatercressAndWinterbournes We are beavering away on our WildFish #SmartRivers samples😅 Here are some volunteers, limpets, pea mussels and snails. Wonderful chalkstreams😍💚 Made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #rivers

This looks so cool!!

#VolunteersWeek a peaceful morning on a #chalkstream, pulling out invasive "monkey flower" and listening to a #cuckoo Thank you to ALL our Chalk Stream Champions 🤩 who give SOOOOO much to #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

#volunteerweek2024 Shout out to #WatercressAndWinterbournes volunteers 💪 montage removing #INNS (plants that shouldn't be in a #chalkstream) 😇 See ONE of the piles we made B4 cleaning up, tea & jammie dodgers. The National Lottery Heritage Fund 🤞🤞🤞 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

VERY BAD NEWS 😖 Always refer to them as yellow-legged hornets as this is a distinguishing feature. #INNS #invasivenonnative #insects #AsianHornet #bees #beekeeping

#VolunteerWeek2024 💪 improving a #chalkstream fen😇 Darren from Wessex Rivers Trust used his chainsaw; vols removed tree/bamboo; I checked for wildlife. Then we cleaned up, had tea/biscuits 😆 #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund 🤞 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust 🌍💚

Out today pulling balsam. On a dreamy #chalkstream😍 #WatercressAndWinterbournes Made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and undertaken by our dedicated #volunteers #volunteering #invasivenonnative Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Environment Agency

Fancy a walk on a #chalkstream in Hampshire? Our Open Chalk Stream walks are on Eventbrite 💃 Google: "Wildlife Trust Eventbrite open chalk streams" to book😊 Always super popular. Places are limited. Tell your friends 😆 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Wessex Rivers Trust