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Engineering with nature to help reduce flooding

Posted by: Andy Croxford, Posted on: 20 October 2015 - Categories: Climate change, Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood
Medmerry Managed realignment

Flooding can occur from many different sources. We saw this in winter 2013-2014 when the storm surge caused flooding on the east coast, there was widespread river flooding across many counties, chalk springs started to flow leading to groundwater flooding …

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Build it and they will come...

Posted by: Peter Hughes, Posted on: 12 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water

...with great haste and in unpredictable ways, never ceases to amaze me. We all had great expectations for Medmerry – 180 hectares of saltmarsh, lagoons and mudflats on the Sussex...

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What are starry smoothhound sharks doing in Sussex?

Posted by: Andrew Gilham, Posted on: 17 July 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood

The recent news about the sharks in Sussex caused a flurry of excitement on Twitter. We’re proud of our work to build natural flood defences and protect nature at Medmerry. Here’s how it came about. Medmerry is the UK’s largest ever managed …

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Give conservation a sporting chance

Posted by: Alastair Driver, Posted on: 14 March 2014 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
The Medmerry Flood Defence scheme has created fantastic new habitats for wildlife whilst reducing the risk of coastal flooding

If you’d told me 35 years ago, after I’d scraped through beer-and-sport-fuelled university with an ecology degree, that I was going to make a living out of conservation, I would not have believed you. But the fact is that there …

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