Dave Hedges, Essex Area Manager for the RSPB, is currently working on some of the RSPB’s largest habitat creation projects including the South Essex Marshes and the Wallasea Island Wild Coast. Wallasea Island is being recreated into thriving wetland twice the size of the City of London and teeming with bird and marine life by using millions of tonnes of clean spoil from Europe’s largest civil engineering project, Crossrail. The earth will be used to create higher and lower ground to restore the wetland landscape of mudflats, saltmarsh and lagoons last seen 400 years ago. Dave has 15 years of conservation experience. He comes to Russell School next month to host an RSPB talk highlighting what it takes to create this 2000 acre wetland and how the RSPB is changing the Essex coastline for ever.
The wetlands and wild coasts of Essex, Thursday 19 Feb, 8pm, Russell School, WD3 5RR
£2.50 RSPB members, £3.50 non-members
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