Project Blog: Climate Change Resilience in East Kent

Fayre’s, Fame and Future Conservationists

2022-04-08T13:03:00Z

Christina Mittar writes: Despite only several weeks remaining, our final months have been full of activity. We have shared some great events with other organisations, and of course made plenty of dams despite Storm Eunice putting the brakes on briefl...(read more)

New-Year reflection; What has happened since our last post?

2022-01-25T09:03:00Z

New-Year reflection; What has happened since our last post? Dam building has begun again after a well-deserved Christmas break and as we move into the last 3 months of our project it is good to reflect on the changes we have made so far…...(read more)

Restoring the Blean's most iconic waterway

2021-11-15T11:06:00Z

Decades ago, RSPB Blean woods would have been a part of a hectic timber industry, fuelled by wars and the need for ships. The priority was not its spectacular wildlife, peaceful woodland walks, or its resilience to any changes in climate, but simply ...(read more)

Rewetting the Blean: an important milestone

2021-10-27T15:38:00Z

It's hard to believe that we are now halfway through our Woodland Rewetting project. When we started planning back in April there were so many unknown factors - and now here we are, over 75 dams in the ground and we're only just into aut...(read more)

Build it and they will come: Large-scale habitat works underway at Seasalter to boost nature’s recovery

2021-09-23T12:10:00Z

September 2021 Imagine looking out of your window in the morning, cup of tea in hand, to see a young redshank, paddling in the low water. It’s scampering back and forth whilst probing repeatedly beneath the waterline, under the watchful eye th...(read more)

Soggier soils: what we've done so far

2021-09-10T11:02:00Z

Bradley Andrews (Community Engagement and Conservation Intern) writes: Improving the forests hydrology to combat the effects of climate change is great idea. But, how do we know if making dams along the forest watercourse will have actually made a di...(read more)

Meet the Team (Part 2): Christina Mittar

2021-08-27T10:15:00Z

For part 2 of our Meet the Team series - say hello to Christina who, alongside Brad, is one of our two Community Engagement and Conservation Interns: My name’s Christina, I am 29 years old and a single parent from Kent. I recently gradua...(read more)

Meet the Team (Part 1): Bradley Andrews

2021-08-20T14:52:00Z

Hi there, as we start to approach the end of the breeding season we are beginning the practical stage of our project. Months of planning by the team is taking shape and boots are on the ground. We've recently grown our ranks by recruiting two new...(read more)

Welcome: Introducing the Project

2021-06-24T14:41:00Z

Hello, and welcome to our project blog! This is where we will keep you up to date about what’s going on across Blean Woods and Seasalter levels. Over the next year (and beyond) we will posting about our events, our practical project work and al...(read more)