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The National Trust has embarked on an ambitious, long-term 'Vision' to create a wetland extending over 10,000 acres from Wicken Fen down to Cambridge. The aim is to allow water level management and an extensive, naturalistic grazing regime to determine the habitats created.
In 1999 at Wicken Fen, the National Trust embarked on an ambitious, long-term 'Vision' to create a wetland extending over 10,000 acres from Wicken down to the city of Cambridge, primarily by buying farmland and reverting it to wetland. So far the NT has more than doubled the size of the original Wicken Fen nature reserve. The aim is to allow water level management and an extensive, naturalistic grazing regime to determine the habitats created. This talk will look at the philosophical, as well as practical management, issues of such a scheme, and review some of the barriers and opportunities of the Vision.
Dr Stuart Warrington, has worked since 2003 for the National Trust as an advisor on all aspects of nature conservation, in the East of England region. Previously he was a lecturer in ecology at the University of Hertfordshire.
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10 November 2006 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 2 hours |
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Birkbeck, University of London |
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Ecology and Conservation Studies Society |
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Free |
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For any queries, please contact e-mail: wright@britishlibrary.net; tel: 020 7485 7903, |
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