Rachel Fancy

Geoff Delve, longtime volunteer and project lead who runs tours and studies birdlife, and Rachel Fancy, RSPB site manager overseeing habitat creation, discuss transforming arable fields into Europe’s largest manmade coastal reserve. They cover using Crossrail clay to raise land, creating mudflats, saltmarsh and saline lagoons, huge increases in waders and migratory importance, and how the site is managed and experienced by visitors.