When activities are likely to have a negative effect on water voles, a mitigation strategy tailored to avoid the specific issues on the site should be put in place. Some of these mitigation and enhancement strategies include:
- maintaining a buffer zone to avoid works to the areas where water voles are, thereby ensuring habitat maintenance and connectivity;
- removal of the vegetation cover of the bank to encourage water voles to voluntarily move to a connected habitat;
- capture and translocation of water voles to a suitable receptor site;
- provide further habitat for water voles;
- improve water quality;
- enhance bank vegetation structure.
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