Month: June 2026
Restoring Beavers to Regenerate LandscapesPosted On: 16/06/2026
At our 2026 Educate and Inspire lecture Ben Morris, Senior Field Officer for the Beaver Trust, gave a fascinating talk about the secret, and not so secret, lives of beavers. His colourful slides illustrated their habits of foraging, digging and damming that characterise their ecosystem engineer status, enriching habitat complexity and biodiversity, and reducing flood […]
Read MoreWater voles released in Farnham after 20 year absence!Posted On: 02/06/2026
Black Down and Hindhead Supporters helped fund the project leading to this magical moment on 1st June beside the River Wey in the middle of Farnham as the early evening traffic queued on the bridge above. Each box containing a single water vole was carefully lowered down to the water level allowing the animal to […]
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