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08-10-2007, 01:04 PM
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| | | Wallasea Island Wildlife Sanctuary
Looking at Wallasea Island, it's hard to imagine that this flat, featureless landscape is about to become one of Britain's most important wildlife sanctuaries.
But 500 years ago - before this corner of coastal Essex was drained to make way for crop production - this was salt marsh. It was a thriving natural environment teeming with life.
Now, in its most ambitious project in this country, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is about to spend £12m recreating the salt marsh, turning the clock back by hundreds of years. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Farmland yields to major wetland
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08-10-2007, 01:10 PM
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Looks great ! id love to be involved in a project like this, being from north kent originally my two fave habitats in the world are chalk downland and saltmarsh...I should think you are much the same julie?
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08-10-2007, 02:09 PM
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Yep you certainly have Jules .... but Keith beat you to it. Don't worry, it is only a rumour that you slow down after your 5000th   http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...w-wetland.html
This is excellent news for our local area and it even made the national TV news this morning.
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08-10-2007, 05:52 PM
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Oops! It's good news though. I shall be interested to see how the sea will be aloud back in. I suppose as series of sluice gates controlling the flow and hopefully allowing the areas to adapt slowly. It would indeed be nice to see the Kentish Plover taking up residence. I suppose you'll try to have it's name changed to Essexish Plover.
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08-10-2007, 06:17 PM
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Correct me if im wrong but wasnt there another huge saltmarsh restoration/ sea wall breaching in essex earlier this year end of last year?....im convinced of it.
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08-10-2007, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by rlchew  This is excellent news for our local area and it even made the national TV news this morning. | And the Today programme on Radio 4. When it's done, can I come over and play please?
Dave P.
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09-10-2007, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Correct me if im wrong but wasnt there another huge saltmarsh restoration/ sea wall breaching in essex earlier this year end of last year?....im convinced of it. | Spot on Dan but it is the same location .... there was a limited breach of the seawall but this is a much larger project.
It got picked up here (see my post 3) .... Minsmere sea defences
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09-10-2007, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by pressld2 And the Today programme on Radio 4. When it's done, can I come over and play please?
Dave P. | I think us Essex folk may have to be a little careful who we invite over to play .... Dame Julie and her uncontrollable Kentish hordes may be a little too much for us
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10-10-2007, 12:04 AM
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The one downside is its a little close to Southend for my liking 
The RSPB seems obsessed with Essex recently, 1st Rainham, now this new one. Me thinks there jealous of the wildlife trusts reserves in the county  |
10-10-2007, 05:45 AM
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I think wherever and whoever creates an area for wildlife are doing a splendid job.
After all, us folks that live in the Thames Gateway area and beyond are gradually sinking under a sea of housing projects, motorway widening projects, shopping centres and now at Kingsnorth, the possibility of a new coal-fired power station!(Really green....not). 
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.
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