Details of phase two for a million healthy ponds to be created in the UK are being announced to combat decades of neglect. Spearheaded by Pond Conservation, Phase 1 of Million Ponds constructed more than 1000 ponds for many of the most endangered freshwater species in Britain.
The Million Ponds Project was launched in order to develop a new approach to protecting life and increasing biodiversity in freshwater focusing on quickly re-installing clean water to the landscape.
For more information and to get involved, go to www.pondconservation.org.uk
See BBC report (which includes leeches) here - what about more in Stroud area? To put in a pond was one of the first things I did when I moved to Ruscombe and I still love to watch the wildlife there....
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Certainly important steps in the right direction ... reversing former govt (MAFF) policy and funding to remove ponds decades ago!
Would be really helpful to have some local govt encouragement - local planning policy could be adapted here maybe ?
And some strategic focus - align with flood / drought spending locally too ?
Thanks - did MAFF really want rid of ponds??!! What a world we live in.....agree would be great to get something a bit more in new Local Plan..
Yes - there are important animal health issues with ponds (liver fluke) ... but fences protect.
MAFF drained not only ponds but vast areas of UK land - just accelerating the flood/drought cycle of course; but gaining some short term food production benefits.
Actually, we need both drainage and pond attenuation - and overall, more sensitivity ! Then we can achieve even greater productivity.
We have had one local (70yr) farmer adamantly state "I am not putting back all my ponds - having been asked to once take them all out ...". The next generation maybe.
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