Wallasea Island Wildlife Sanctuary

[pressld2]

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

The government don't have a minister for 'wildlife, birds,wild flowers, wetlands,etc' as such, so bring on anyone that is willing to grab a bit of land and hand it back to nature.

Hear, hear! I nominate Wild-Woman as Minister for Wildlife. Do we have a seconder?

Dave P.

[Jez]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Hear, hear! I nominate Wild-Woman as Minister for Wildlife. Do we have a seconder?

Dave P.

Mos Def.

[Wild-Woman]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Hear, hear! I nominate Wild-Woman as Minister for Wildlife. Do we have a seconder?

Dave P.

He he! We would need to form the WAB Party.
I'd probably be thrown out on Question Time for colourful language.

[rlchew]

A WAB Party and Julie as Minister for Wildlife .... I would vote for that.

Bring it on Jules.

Mind you, as a Dame I think you would have to sit in the House of Lords with all the crusty wrinklies .... at least they would be too deaf to hear the colourful language

Richard

[Chiltern Chris]

For info. these saltmarsh / mudflat creation projects are become more common for a number of reasons. Firstly is that they are cost effective as far as flood risk management is concerned, secondly we legally have to compensate for the loss of habitat such as European Habitats Directive sites (hooray for European law!) and thirdly Defra have set targets for the Environment Agency to create 100ha of saltmash per year. This has now lead to the EA setting up Regional habitat creation programmes which are being written this year. The first one in Anglian Region, which is under the greatest pressure, has already been written and Midlands Region, which includes the Humber, has just started writing one.

The Wallasea project is just one of the ongoing projects which has had some publicity, but there are many others. If you go to the following web site - Managed Realignment Electronic Platform and look under ‘references’ and then go down to ‘case studies’ this highlights a number of ongoing projects with some details on some of the existing projects around the country. I’ve also included a link to the Alkborough scheme http://intranet.ea.gov/organisation/...Alkborough.pdf which was completed recently and is the first of a number of schemes proposed on the Humber due to coastal squeeze.

Cheers, Chris

[Martin Wilson]

As a resident of Foulness Island separated from Wallasea Island by the River Roach the project is an outstanding one and from what we understand to be repeated in a few other selected areas locally . I think anything that can be done to prevent the endless onslaught of building programs taking over salt marshes and flood plains has to be a good thing . After the endless hype of the recent flood alerts and the predicted huge tides, it makes sense to have an escape valve and a natural one at that, no flooding accrued here but if it had, it would have been just a surge and the sea wall would have been up to it. Since the 53 floods the walls have been made more secure and the fleets around the inside of the Island's wall would have dealt with any water coming over. Foulness has been an MOD testing site for a very long time but it has always had vast areas for the wild life to live and migrate with just a bang or two but this does very little to disturb them otherwise they would not come back year after year and to increase the area of protected marshes and salt plains will always get my vote.