Global News - March 2008
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UK government looks to protect threatened water voles
Mon 31 March 2008 14:00 UK — Europe,Other
The UK government is set to introduce new laws which will help protect rare water voles in the country.
The new Wildlife and Countryside Act will come into force later in the week and will mean that anyone who kills, injures or disturbs the habitat of a water vole could face a £5,000 fine or six months imprisonment, the Guardian reported.
Water voles are considered to be one of the fastest declining mammals in the UK and some experts have suggested that its population in the country has dropped by 90 per cent in the last two decades.
Their survival has been threatened by the introduction of American minks, as well as by pest controllers and habitat loss.
Joan Ruddock, minister of biodiversity, commented on the new laws, explaining to the paper: "It is in all our interests that England's valuable wildlife is protected and a lot of work has been done to ensure that the list of species being protected is comprehensive."
Other species which are set to benefit from increased protection under the new laws include two species of seahorses.
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