September 2023

NEW FUNDING SUCCESS: VOLUNTEER CITIZEN CONSERVATIONISTS URGENTLY NEEDED!

2023-09-14T05:42:28+01:00

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 [...]

NEW FUNDING SUCCESS: VOLUNTEER CITIZEN CONSERVATIONISTS URGENTLY NEEDED!2023-09-14T05:42:28+01:00

May 2023

Let’s work together, be ambitious and say goodbye to American mink

2024-06-12T10:27:10+01:00

A problem with invasive introduced species is that they leave you few choices: you suffer the damage, you control them, or you eradicate them. In most cases these are not exclusive, you might for example do some control but still suffer damage. Without eradication, the cost of damage and control remains year in, year [...]

Let’s work together, be ambitious and say goodbye to American mink2024-06-12T10:27:10+01:00

April 2023

Camera Trap Reveals Surprise Visitor

2023-04-25T09:09:32+01:00

Mink monitoring stations across the Waterlife Recovery East project area sometimes reveal surprising visitors but none more so than a pine marten that has become a regular visitor to one of our Essex sites since Mid March 2023. Pine martens were once a common native species in the county's woodlands but like polecats were [...]

Camera Trap Reveals Surprise Visitor2023-04-25T09:09:32+01:00

April 2022

Waterlife Discovery Day

2023-04-25T09:10:12+01:00

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 [...]

Waterlife Discovery Day2023-04-25T09:10:12+01:00

March 2022

Creation of artificial nesting bank for kingfishers

2023-04-25T09:11:48+01:00

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 [...]

Creation of artificial nesting bank for kingfishers2023-04-25T09:11:48+01:00

February 2022

The Countryman’s Weekly Article – By Nigel Housden

2023-04-25T09:12:30+01:00

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 [...]

The Countryman’s Weekly Article – By Nigel Housden2023-04-25T09:12:30+01:00

July 2021

Dust-bathing otter

2023-04-25T09:13:03+01:00

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 [...]

Dust-bathing otter2023-04-25T09:13:03+01:00

Kingfisher vote of approval

2023-04-25T09:13:37+01:00

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 [...]

Kingfisher vote of approval2023-04-25T09:13:37+01:00

May 2021

Fantastic support from the Anglian Water Invasive Species Fund

2024-06-12T10:27:34+01:00

Waterlife Recovery East (WRE) is incredibly pleased to be able to report that we have received three grants from the Anglian Water Invasive Species Fund, each for £14,650.  The grants are administered by the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation and received on behalf of WRE by one of our key partners The Norfolk Rivers Trust. The [...]

Fantastic support from the Anglian Water Invasive Species Fund2024-06-12T10:27:34+01:00

December 2020

Green Recovery Challenge Fund grants nearly a quarter of a million pounds to save threatened East Anglian wildlife

2023-05-02T09:01:17+01:00

Norfolk Rivers Trust has received a Green Recovery Challenge Fund grant of £229,200 for Waterlife Recovery East’s ‘Restoring biodiversity: building a mink-free East Anglia’, a partnership project including local charities Norfolk Rivers Trust, Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Countryside Restoration Trust. Waterlife Recovery East is one of the first environmental projects awarded a grant from [...]

Green Recovery Challenge Fund grants nearly a quarter of a million pounds to save threatened East Anglian wildlife2023-05-02T09:01:17+01:00
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