© 2020 – 2023 AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
News

River Tamar allowed to flood farmland to help wildlife and climate

Project to reverse Victorian-era reclamation creates rich, marshy land that can lock in carbon

The herons and little egrets have already begun to hunt in the muddy shallows and the hope is that within a few years, rarer wading birds such as curlew and mammals including otters and harvest mice will appear.

But the project to allow river water from the Tamar, the iconic boundary between Devon and Cornwall, back on to a chunk of land that was turned into farmland in Victorian times, is about much more than attracting wildlife.

Continue reading…

Related posts

London boat dwellers protest against plans they say could leave them homeless

AEA3

Unacceptable to let police criminalise protesters, say MPs and peers

AEA3

Oligarch funded Everton football club while barred from UK

AEA3

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This