Beavers create habitat suitable for water voles in Scottish rainforest

Beavers' dams have created more places for water voles to hide from predators and hopefully flourish, say experts

Beavers reintroduced to a Scottish rainforest 15 years ago may have created the right habitat for the area's endangered water voles to flourish.

The voles, once abundant in Scotland but now one of the country's most threatened native animals, could thrive in the complex boundary between water and land" that beavers have created in Knapdale in Argyll and Bute since their reintroduction there in 2009.