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Once a familiar sight along Britain’s riverbanks, water voles now face extinction—thanks to a new predator. Can these promising conservation programs save them?

Here were many old friends: The Jungle Book (“we be of one blood, ye and I”); The Wind in the Willows (“nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”); Swallows and ...