The White Stork Project is working to reestablish a population of storks in the South of England. These large, charismatic birds were last home here several hundred years ago, but human actions have caused them to be absent from our landscape, until now.
The white stork is a migratory species, and there have been many sightings of storks in the UK over recent years. However storks are a highly social, colonial bird and they will not establish themselves in an environment unless they can find evidence of other storks there. As such, conservationists identified that the species would need a helping hand to re-establish a breeding population in Britain. This is where our work comes in.
Reconnecting people and landscapes
In a time of increasing disengagement with nature in the UK, bringing back White Storks could be a means by which we can reignite our affection for the natural world and it could act as an emblem for environmental restoration.
Team Stork
A number of private landowners, namely Knepp, and Wadhurst located in West Sussex and East Sussex respectively, are helping to establish a breeding population of free-living White Storks in Britain once again. This project is being carried out in partnership with the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, Cotswold Wildlife Park and Warsaw Zoo.
The partnership formed as a result of wanting to find a way to engage people and nature. An obvious animal to do this with is the White Stork.
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