Animal rights activists are not to blame

Often associated with the much-loved Wind in the Willows, the beloved water vole is a welcome addition to Britain’s waterways. However, unfortunately the creatures are currently endangered in Britain.

Nature needs time to adapt to changing conditions,

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James fair’s article ‘the burning question on moors’ (October 2025) makes a good stab at presenting the views of both sides of this debate. But by presenting the issue as conservationists versus grous

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

The article on how animals use sound in the September issue included comment on dialect or accent in birdsong. This reminded me of a passage in the book Incredible Journeys by David Barrie. He relates