Assertion: water vole | /r/HasProperty | vulnerable
Facets:
value: to the american mink
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in holland
type: LOCATION
value: to extinction in the uk
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to predation by american mink
type: CAUSE
value: to the tulip harvest
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: particularly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Water voles are particularly vulnerable to predation by American mink which were first brought to Britain in the 1920s for fur farms, they began escaping very quickly and were breeding in the wild by the mid-1950s.
text: In Holland, water voles can be a serious threat to the tulip harvest as they eat the young bulbs in winter.
text: Water voles are a protected species and all research is carried out under appropriate licences.
text: Water Voles habitats in the UK especially, are today considered to be protected areas as it is the loss of these that has been the primary cause for their demise.
text: This invasive species poses one of the greatest threats to water vole survival and is one of the reasons water vole are vulnerable to extinction in the UK.
text: Water voles are vulnerable to the American mink in particular, as their usual protection mechanism of sheltering in their burrows does not work because the mink can easily follow them in.