{"id":390155,"date":"2026-01-25T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390155\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:30:07","slug":"dagenham-to-become-home-to-white-storks-and-beavers-once-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390155\/","title":{"rendered":"Dagenham to become home to white storks and beavers once again"},"content":{"rendered":"

She said: “This is a once-in-a-generation chance to witness nature’s comeback into your own backyard.”<\/p>\n

The council has teamed up with London Wildlife Trust to handle their reintroduction, and said the two green spaces were “exceptional sites” that could support the species’ return.<\/p>\n

The two bodies have secured funding from City Hall, the government and corporate sponsors to pay for the joint project.<\/p>\n

A purpose-built aviary with grassland areas at Eastbrookend Country Park will house the reintroduced white storks.<\/p>\n

The resulting chicks born there will eventually be released to help establish a new breeding population in the area. <\/p>\n

The beavers will be released into a lakeside enclosure with 16 acres of open water and several small islands at The Chase in March 2027.<\/p>\n

It follows the successful reintroduction of beavers<\/a> in an enclosure in Paradise Fields in Greenford, west London, in October 2023. <\/p>\n

Labour councillor Ashraf said the funding would also pay for a new species recovery officer who could run nature walks, school visits and a voluntary programme.<\/p>\n

She said the project would come at “no cost to the local taxpayer”, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said: “This is a once-in-a-generation chance to witness nature’s comeback into your own backyard.” The council has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-390155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}