The water voles lived along the coast of West Sussex are about to be taken to a new place to live due to work of a flood defense nature. This flood defense work is being done to protect about 300 static caravan homes that are at a high risk of flooding. The work officially began on November 15th in Selsey. These sea defenses will help guard the homes and static caravans from potential flood. Just west of Selsey, a brand new wetland habitat located on Manhood Peninsula, will be made as part of the entire sea defenses project. “Static caravan parks need to be protected from flooding as it is creating a huge loss for the owners and insurance companies. These new sea defenses will be four-miles long and built along further towards inland. It will also make a new wetlands habitat for the vole and other types of wildlife.” There is a team of thirty volunteers who will constantly examine the water ways that go straight to where the voles' do live. Some of these water ways include ditches, ponds and streams. £50,000 was given directly as a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to get the necessary work done and this project is called Manhood Wildlife and Heritage Group. Dr. Sutcliffe, who represents the group itself, stated the following: “We must make sure that any ditches that go to the new vole habitats must be in tip top condition. Due to a breach that happened in sea defenses back in 2008, an overwhelming number of static caravans, about 2,000 in total, had to be evacuated suddenly. “