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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Daniel Sexton |South East |Yvette Austin
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2 months ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Daniel Sexton |South East |Yvette Austin
Three men from Kent have been arrested in connection with the waste dumping at Hoads Wood, near Ashford [BBC]Three men have been arrested as part of an investigation into the large-scale, illegal dumping of waste at woodland in Kent. Two men, aged 44 and 62 and from the Isle of Sheppey, and a 41-year-old man from Sittingbourne, were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the dumping at Hoads Wood, near Ashford, the Environment Agency (EA) said.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Yvette Austin
Conservationists are calling on business and industry to help fund an ambitious project to restore the landscape of the Darent Valley in Kent. They hope it will help protect current wildlife species, as well bring back others that have been virtually lost, such as wild brown trout.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Yvette Austin
The days of the mink could be numbered in the south-east of England as part of efforts to save nature’s “good guys”, the water vole. Environmental groups say there has been a 97% decline in the number of water voles nationally since 1950 – largely due to mink. The Waterlife Recovery Trust (WRT), with the help of farmers, landowners and £20,000 from the Environment Agency, have laid 2,000 floating "smart traps” across waterways to help eradicate the invasive creature.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Yvette Austin
The two calves were born as part of the wilding project in Blean Woods [Tim Horton/Kent Wildlife Trust]Two bison calves have been born in an east Kent woodland as part of a groundbreaking wilding project. The young females take the number in the herd near Canterbury to eight. The herd forms part of a project to boost the diversity of Blean Woods and help make the landscape more resilient to climate change.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
aol.com | Yvette Austin |Bob Dale |South East
A rescue operation is under way to save nine pilot whales that have become stranded off the Kent coast. The pod has become trapped on mudflats at low tide in the Swale estuary near Sittingbourne. Thirty members of British Divers Marine Life Rescue are using specialist equipment to get across the mud and reach the whales. It is hoped the whales will be able to be refloated when the tide comes in during the early hours of Tuesday. More rescuers are expected to arrive in the next few hours.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
sg.news.yahoo.com | Yvette Austin |Bob Dale |South East
Read full articleAn 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota. Prosecutors are not seeking prison time for Arthur “Jack” Schubarth of Vaughn, Montana, according to court records.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Yvette Austin |Bob Dale |South East
A rescue operation is underway to save nine pilot whales that have become stranded off the Kent coast. The pod has become trapped on mudflats at low tide in the Swale estuary near Sittingbourne. Thirty members of British Divers Marine Life Rescue are using specialist equipment to get across the mud and reach the whales. It is hoped the whales will be able to be refloated when the tide comes in at around 07:00 BST on Tuesday. Follow BBC Kent on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
aol.com | Daniel Sexton |South East |Yvette Austin
September 26, 2024 at 2:58 PMThe wine produced at the site is called Domaine Evremond [BBC/Yvette Austin]A new wine estate has officially opened its first bottle in Kent, nearly a decade after the land was bought by a well-known Champagne producer. Champagne Taittinger, along with its UK agency and partner Hatch Mansfield, bought the land in Chilham in 2015 and planted the first vines in 2017.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Daniel Sexton |South East |Yvette Austin
The wine produced at the site is called Domaine Evremond [BBC/Yvette Austin]A new wine estate has officially opened its first bottle in Kent, nearly a decade after the land was bought by a well-known Champagne producer. Champagne Taittinger, along with its UK agency and partner Hatch Mansfield, bought the land in Chilham in 2015 and planted the first vines in 2017.
