The Environment Trust is working with Year 8 students from Twickenham Academy, in conjunction with the London Wildlife Trust, to re-vegetate a section of the River Crane with native plants that have been chosen based on plants favoured by water voles. Wooden toe-boarding, installed decades ago to speed the flow of water away, has mostly been removed. This will allow the river to behave more naturally, and encourage a greater diversity of plants and animals along the river, and crucially will enable the resident vole population to flourish. Some toe-boarding has been retained to prevent excessive bank erosion.
It wasn't all hard work. The Year 8s also got to discover what lives in the river.
Plants in the glasshouse before planting.
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