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Taming the Flood - The Essex Beaver Project

Date: Thursday 11th February

Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Price: £8.50 (Click HERE to book)

Proud to be part of Epping Forest District Festival of Culture 

This talk will be delivered as a Zoom Webinar.  You will receive further information concerning joining the talk nearer to the time of the event.  You will need to use the email address that you used to book your ticket to access the talk.  Please contact us if you have any questions.

Darren Tansley (River Catchment Coordinator at Essex Wildlife Trust) explains how and why beavers have returned to Essex after an absence of many hundreds of years. Delving into the benefits for both wildlife and humans, he looks at how this pair of large rodents has already transformed the landscape at Spains Hall and why they are not only helping reduce flooding, but also drought. In a final twist he'll tell us how beavers are assisting Citizen Scientists to map mammal species across the whole river catchment using DNA in water samples.

 

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This event is being hosted by Epping Forest District Museum as part of Epping Forest District Festival of Culture 2021. For more information about the festival including further event listings, take a look at http://www.visiteppingforest.org/cultural-festival