Small Mammal Recovery and River Restoration on Hackney Marshes

A film documenting our efforts over the last three years to bring small mammals back to Hackney Marshes and restore and improve biodiversity in and along the old River Lea. The Old Lea and Marshes Restoration Project was led by Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston, supported and funded by the Mayor of London Groundwork London, Hackney Council and the Rewild London Fund, The London Wildlife Trust, The Environment Agency, Wild Trout Trust, Save Lea Marshes and Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. None of this would have possible without the support of the hundreds of volunteers who have and continue to help our work on the marshes.

00:00 Logos
00:18 Title & Intro
00:43 Species lost - Birds Amphibians Lizards
01:04 Species lost - Rabbits Small & mammals
01:50 Wood Mice
02:06 Why Wood Mice numbers crashed
02:37 Impact of Dogs and Cats on Wildlife
02:44 Hackney Beach
03:05 Loss of Mice
03:39 Impact of the loss of mice
04:14 Emergency action starts - Log Piles
04:41 All hands on deck
05:09 Gideon - WGH Funding
05:22 Gideon - Old River Lea Restoration
06:04 Nina Old River Lea Restoration
06:15 Gideon - River Complexity
06:50 Gideon - Work on the banks
07:00 Loggeries over 3 years
07:15 Gideon - final year Russell intro
07:30 Russell - Coppicing
08:12 Russell - Woodland Habitat
08:30 Nina - Coppicing Workshops
08:41 Russell North Marsh Habitats Project
09:18 Meadow Habitat potential reintroductions
09:35 Short-tailed vole
10:02 Short-tailed voles return
10:19 Common Shrew increase
10:30 We need a mammal survey
10:44 Small mammal - Alison
11:00 Alison - Survey Sites
11:38 Alison - Traps and Numbers
11:57 First Short-tailed Vole in over 20 Years
12:01 Alison - Longworth Trap
12:11 Alison - Sherman Trap
12:43 Alison - Shrew data
12:51 Gideon - Small Mammal survey
13:00 Ian - Wood mouse in trap
13:11 Alison - Results
13:29 Ian - Wood mouse release
13:33 Alison - Interesting Vole observations
13:48 Alison - We need to increase habitat
14:13 Gideon - Food chain
14:22 Russell - Results
14:35 Russell - Grassland management
15:05 Grassland management Vole Shrew Relocation
16:11 Kestrel takes a Vole
16;37 Small mammal relocation
16:54 Final thoughts
17:33 End Credits