A biodiversity survey in Ethiopia’s Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve has found three semi-aquatic rodents believed to be the Ethiopian water mouse, unseen in the wild since 1927. The find could refine conservation plans for a critically endangered, little-known species and its remaining habitat.
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Ethiopian water mouse found again after nearly a century

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A biodiversity survey in Ethiopia’s Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve has found three semi-aquatic rodents believed to be the Ethiopian water mouse, unseen in the wild since 1927. The find could refine conservation plans for a critically endangered, little-known species and its remaining habitat.

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