Two new natural flood management schemes in the south east of England Chearsley Wetland – a thriving new habitat on River Thame Partnership project transforms 17 hectares of floodplain grassland into complex wetland habitat at Manor Farm. Flourishing wildlife and flood management. Chearsley Wetland recently marked its two-year anniversary, which has seen the site transformed […]
A park drainage system will be created to absorb run-off water pollution from one of Brighton’s busiest roads. Experts are analysing the site at Wild Park, in Moulsecoomb, before the main groundwork starts in August. The £1.79 million project comprises four shallow wetlands which will hold water during heavy rainfall, filtering out pollution from nearby […]
Great piece in the Guardian crediting beavers, reintroduced to the Knapdale rainforest in western Scotland in 2009, with creating the perfect conditions for the reintroduction of one of the country’s most endangered mammals, the water vole. The beavers’ dam-building is reshaping the forest and its waterways, creating just the right type of riverbank for water […]
Following on from World Wetlands Day (2 Feb), the World Wetland Network is running a participatory science survey of the state of the world’s wetlands. The survey is open until 30 April, after which a senior science team assesses the findings, which will be published at Ramsar COP15 in 2025.
WWT has published a report ‘Wetlands for Water Quality: Creating and managing treatment wetlands to improve water quality. Read the press release here and the executive summary below. Executive summary Wetlands can play a vital role in helping us tackle our current water quality crisis by filtering out pollutants that pass through naturally occurring wetlands. […]
A brand new wetlands scheme in a West Sussex area will help Southern Water in its efforts to reduce storm overflows into Chichester Harbour and improve water quality. The project, involving the planting of more than 1,500 reed plants, will be completed in the next few weeks on Lavant Wastewater Treatment Works. Creation of wetlands […]
Wetlands along the east coast of England, from the Humber to the Thames, have successfully been added to the UK’s Tentative List of World Heritage sites. England’s east coast wetlands will be added to the UK’s Tentative List of World Heritage sites along with just five other new sites, the UK Government has announced. Inclusion […]
From The Guardian Ecologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recover As David Klee nosed his boat out into the channels of Whangamarino, he saw the birds were dying. Hundreds were already dead, floating, the sheen of their feathers dulling in the scum near […]