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The project will be able to hold around 20 of the animals, with each pair expected to have between two and four kits a year. The demand for beaver meat, fur and the secretion from a small gland used for perfume and pain relief meant they were hunted to the point of their disappearance in the 16th century. Ealing Wildlife Group says the beavers will turn their homes into a ‘more ecologically inclusive habitat’ allowing other troubled species such as water voles to thrive. Beavers are to be introduced into urban London for the first time since they were hunted to extinction 400 years ago.

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Elliot Newton, co-founder of Citizen Zoo sees this as a unique opportunity to put cities and urban rewilding on the map: A total of 116 hectares of land across London will benefit from rewilding projects including woodland restoration and a Pollinator Corridor in which bees can thrive.Paradise Fields, promised to the hospice by her good friend Sir Gerald, is the perfect place for the farmers’ market for locals to sell their wares and to raise money and awareness of the local hospice. She is in a comfortable (safe? boring?) relationship with a local realtor, Simon. Her two sons are at university and her daughter is nearly there. She owns her own home and has her dear friend, Viv, to advise (nag?) her about her very unexciting but predictable life. Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born 27 September 1952 in England, UK, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming. Her sister is fellow writer Jane Gordon-Cumming. Katie married Desmond Fforde, cousin of the also writer Jasper Fforde. She has three children: Guy, Francis and Briony and didn't start writing until after the birth of her third child. She has previously worked both as a cleaning lady and in a health food cafe. Many people assume beavers are a wilderness species, when in fact we’ve just forgotten how closely we used to live alongside them. We’re so excited to study how beavers interact with an urban river catchment and, crucially, with urban communities. Beavers are a keystone species, manipulating habitat to create biodiverse wetlands where many other species can thrive. Their activities can help combat and adapt to impacts of climate change through carbon capture, reduce flood risk by slowing water flow in times of high rainfall and mitigate drought by holding more water on the land.” An alliance of conservationists are turning Paradise Fields, a 10-hectare wetland in Ealing, west London, into an ‘immersive beaver landscape’ set to open later this year.

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Is she ready to take a chance on love? A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author of A Springtime Affair and A Wedding in the Country. I think this is perhaps my fav KF and I needed a book version of a warm hug this week. This is when the plot is tight, the elements are all in line and it flows really well. Definately, the winning formula at work. Dr Roisín Campbell-Palmer, Head of Restoration at the Beaver Trust and licenced ecologist supporting the project believes the Ealing project to be truly unique, offering new insights not previously seen in more rural reintroduction projects. Free-living wild beavers are already as close to London as Medway, Kent and Oxfordshire. Natural recolonisation is almost an inevitability. Learning to live alongside beavers is something that landowners, local councils, residents, conservation organisations and other stakeholders are going to have to do in future. And excitingly today, the 17th of March 2022, Forty Hall Farm in Enfield released a pair of beavers into a woodland enclosure under license in a joint project by Capel Manor College and Enfield Council, the first beavers to live in London in 400 years. The key objectives of our proposed project are:Nel is the owner of a houseful of animals and the organiser of the farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields. The project is a collaboration between Ealing Wildlife Group, Citizen Zoo, Friends of Horsenden Hill and Ealing Council with support from Beaver Trust. Its core objectives will be: The works on Paradise Fields are currently centred on a new fence around the habitat, which the beavers are trusted to make homely by themselves. The project, led by Ealing Wildlife Group, Ealing Council and other conservation groups, will mark the first time beavers have been introduced to such an urban area.

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Rewilding allows nature to take the lead and is an exciting way to create healthier ecosystems and allow humans and wildlife to live together more harmoniously.’

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Elliot Newton, co-founder of Citizen Zoo welcomed the beaver licence approval and funding announcement, commenting: Nel, widowed for several years, is a busy lady in her home of the Cotswolds. She moved there shortly after her husband died and it was the perfect place for raising the children and immersing herself in village life. Her passion is the children’s hospice and she devotes much of her time raising money and planning events to help those seriously ill children have a little pleasure in their lives. The beavers at Paradise Fields will come from Tayside, in Scotland. A pair will come first after the spring mating season and, if they have kits, or offspring, they will join them.

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Mr Khan said: ‘We are now facing dual climate and ecological emergencies worldwide, which further threaten our ability to survive on our planet.The Friends of Horsenden Hill are excited to be involved in this first truly urban London beaver reintroduction and look forward to the day they arrive.” But when her old friend and owner of Paradise Fields dies, she knows she must fight to save the meadow and market she loves so dearly. Beaver Trust is a climate and nature restoration charity restoring beavers to regenerate our landscapes. They provide practical solutions to help people live alongside beavers and support legislation that rebuilds ecosystems and strengthens climate resilience in a time of ecological and climate crisis.