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Project to reintroduce ospreys at Rutland Water hits 300 milestone
Project to reintroduce ospreys at Rutland Water hits 300 milestone

BBC News

time12-08-2025

  • General
  • BBC News

Project to reintroduce ospreys at Rutland Water hits 300 milestone

A wildlife trust has celebrated a major milestone in a project to reintroduce ospreys to Rutland Water.A total of 300 Ospreys have now been ringed and flown the nest under the Rutland Osprey Project, with 31 ringed this year alone, making 2025 the most successful year since the project launched in initiative was designed to create a self-sustaining breeding population of ospreys at Rutland Water, with chicks from nests in Scotland moved to the area and released, Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) added that osprey 7R4 was the 300th osprey to be ringed and leave the nest. The trust said at about six-weeks old, the birds are ringed, which enables identifying, tracking and monitoring of individuals over their to LRWT, ospreys nest and breed in the UK from March until September, and breeding pairs often return to the same location each 2001, the first osprey in England for about 150 years was born at Rutland Water and 300 birds have fledged the site in total, the trust Davis, head of reserve management at LRWT, said: "Ospreys are a hugely important bird species for us. "Not only are they enjoyed by millions of people, but they have shown us that with proactive conservation work we can bring back species from the brink of extinction."Everyone involved in their conservation can be extremely proud of this milestone and what we have achieved for this beautiful and enigmatic species."

'Record' number of glow worms found at quarry in Rutland
'Record' number of glow worms found at quarry in Rutland

BBC News

time08-07-2025

  • Science
  • BBC News

'Record' number of glow worms found at quarry in Rutland

A "record" number of female glow-worms have been found in Rutland despite a "huge decline" in numbers of the insect over the last 30 and Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) said 86 glowing females and eight males were found at Ketton Quarry last week, a record count for females on any one site in to the trust, although glow-worms emit light at all stages of their life cycle, it is only adult females that "really glow". Tim Sexton, from LRWT, said the increase in numbers is due to the "very warm and wet" summer last year, which is "perfect" for snails, the food source of glow worm larvae. He added that glow-worms - a type of beetle - can live for up to two years as larvae, during which they eat snails and slugs "voraciously", but only survive for a week in adult form. Mr Sexton told the BBC the trust recorded a maximum of 35 glowing females last year at Ketton Quarry and said the number found so far in 2025 is "much better" than in any of the previous five years. According to the trust, the "glowing" females are only visible from May to the end of July. Mr Sexton added: "Their amazing ability to to emit light really inspires wonder and reminds us of the magic that's in the natural world that's worth protecting."

Colony Reservoir dries up after warmest spring on record
Colony Reservoir dries up after warmest spring on record

BBC News

time16-06-2025

  • Climate
  • BBC News

Colony Reservoir dries up after warmest spring on record

A reservoir at the Charnwood Lodge nature reserve has dried up due to the "extremely dry" spring, a wildlife organisation has and Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) said all the fish in the water have died at Colony Reservoir in UK recorded its warmest spring on record and its driest in more than 50 years, according to provisional figures from the Met added the reservoir was entirely fed by rainwater run-off from the surrounding hills, but the supply has run out due to the dry weather. A spokesperson said: "It's not a pretty sight up there at the minute. "Because of the remote location it's been impossible to fill up by any other means and it's also made any potential rescuing of the fish impossible, too."The spokesperson added the reservoir can dry up "from time to time" but added that it had not happened "for a number of years".

Major rewilding planned with land purchase near Market Harborough
Major rewilding planned with land purchase near Market Harborough

BBC News

time23-03-2025

  • General
  • BBC News

Major rewilding planned with land purchase near Market Harborough

More than 130 acres (54 hectares) of land in Leicestershire has been set aside for a major rewilding District Council said it had purchased a site, equivalent to about 80 football pitches, close to Great Bowden near Market Harborough, for £ Market Harborough Rewilding Project will be supported by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) to improve an area of countryside described as some of the most heavily-modified and nature-depleted in lowland leader Phil Knowles said the initiative was "an amazing opportunity to restore nature on a nationally important scale in an area where this has never been achieved before." "This will be a catalyst for a strategic partnership that will rewild large swathes of nature-depleted countryside, protecting it as public open space for generations to come and bringing nature back to the area," he said. 'Amazing legacy' Mat Carter, LRWT chief executive, said: "Only through ambitious and innovative projects like this can we reverse the decline in nature and realise the benefits that it can bring."He said the project would showcase how land could be restored "to support thriving wildlife and bring benefits to the communities that live around them". He added: "This is an opportunity to create an amazing legacy." Parts of the planned rewilding area are plots of former farmland. The trust said it was planning a range of approaches to managing the land, including using herbivores like ponies or rare breed cattle to graze it more Local Democracy Reporting Service said the land purchase could also lead to the creation of a new council waste depot. Knowles added : "Not having our own waste depot to house our own fleet and equipment has been costly for taxpayers, but due to this land being adjacent to the existing depot site, we now have options for the future."

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