Ealing WIldlife Group (EWG) need you for their Ealing Beaver Project. Ealing Wildlife Group Beaver project is installing beautiful interpretive signage at Paradise Fields to engage visitors to the site. Join them from 09:00 on Thursday, 29 August. They need help unload and install the signs, and place way markers across the site. Details of the event are on EWG’s page here.
All volunteers are welcome. Tasks will involve digging trenches at chosen spots around the site and using postcrete to fix the signs in place. Some tools are available to provide to volunteers, but the more tools the better. Please bring along the following if you have them:
- Tape measures
- Spirit levels
- Watering cans
- Spades
If you would like to join, please sign up on eventbrite here. More details of the project and where to meet are provided on the eventbrite page.
More about EWG’s Urban Beaver Project
Back in October 2023 a family of Eurasian beavers was successfully released into Paradise Fields in Greenford, Ealing. This a state of the art enclosure created by the Ealing Beaver Project is a 10 hectare site. Of which 8 hectares is now enclosed and home to the beavers. This area is a magical mosaic of mixed habitats including wet woodlands and waterways. Plus meadows dotted with ancient oak standards and large areas of untamed scrubland. This is practically perfect for wildlife and beavers! You can check out more information about EWG’s urban beaver project here.
There are plenty of opportunities to get involved, meet new people and learn skills. This will include observing the amazing impacts that beavers have already made and will continue to make on the site. You can see their ecosystem engineering delivering potentially profound and positive effects for wildlife and the flow of the Coston’s Brook, which crosses the site.
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