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An English castle became a stork magnet
Helped by a bold rewilding project, storks are migrating between Britain and North Africa again for the first time in 600 years. How can we make their journey safer?
One stork crossed the English channel on a fishing vesselThe day after my visit to Knepp, I speak to Aldina Franco, an associate professor in ecology and global environmental change at the University of East Anglia. The multitude of tracks show a surprisingly clear overall pattern, of storks zipping back and forth along the south coast of England, trying to figure out where best to cross the channel, then zooming across the water to France and down to Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Having reached Portugal and Spain, or crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to Morocco, some of the Knepp storks enjoyed a hearty reward: a feast on open landfill sites, rich in food waste.
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