Back in 2016, while I was working for the Norfolk Mink Project, I was contacted by Tabs, the Wildlife & Conservation Warden at Fairhaven Woodland & Wildlife Garden, after he came face to face with an American mink during his daily rounds. At the time, the Broads around South Walsham, Ranworth, Woodbastwick, Salhouse and [...]
A great new article of this title by Roff Smith in National Geographic (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/water-voles-britain-conservation) lifts the spirits by recognising that, at last, there really is hope of a recovery by Britain's beleaguered water voles. It will be of no surprise to visitors to the Waterlife Recovery Trust's website (to which the NatGeo article has [...]
The Thames to Lincolnshire (TtL) project commenced in August 2023, when WRT were awarded a £500,000 grant by Natural England. The areas included in the grant ran from the Thames in the south to mid-Lincolnshire. With additional match funding from partnering trusts, the TtL project was able to extend to include South London, Essex [...]
For the first time, the Waterlife Recovery Trust (WRT) has demonstrated the possibility of eradicating, rather than simply controlling, American mink. This is exciting news for the conservation community and anyone who is passionate about protecting our native wildlife from invasive species. Right now, the WRT is rolling out its eradication project across South [...]
The Waterlife Recovery Trust is delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding from Natural England's Species Recovery Programme. The new grant of £500,000 will allow us to expand our work outwards from East Anglia to cover an area from the Thames to mid Lincolnshire (see map above). Better still, the Essex Wildlife [...]
There is such a thing as a free lunch! Join us for a celebration of the achievements made during the Green Recovery Challenge Funded phase of our campaign to make East Anglia’s waterways a safe place for our native wildlife! We will be having an afternoon learning about the recovery of water voles, otters [...]
Back in July 2021 I was contacted by Matthew Plummer, who was referred to me by a landowner with a smart raft on their land. Matthew told me about a mink that had raided their pond earlier in the year although luckily they managed to trap it. His pond is surrounded by an electric [...]
The Countryman’s Weekly is carrying an article by Nigel Housden, featuring Stephen Mace the Lead Project Office for the Mink Eradication project. Below is a video that Nigel and Stephen made to show the equipment we use, and how to use it. Nigel Housden's website can be viewed here - https://www.pinsharpstudios.com/. Below [...]
Otters are making a very welcome return to the waterways of East Anglia, having been persecuted to near-extinction in our region. They and American mink often occupy the same stretch of river or drain, and otter families are frequent visitors to the mink rafts we deploy, which is why the raft tunnels are fitted [...]
A blur of electric blue is all that we normally see of a kingfisher, and even this is a rare encounter for most of us, but one of these delightful creatures gave Cliff Carson a very pleasant surprise when he downloaded one of the cameras he employs to monitor mink raft activity. The camera [...]
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