The last time you could see white storks in London was in the fifteenth century. Next year, though, these beautiful birds — native to England, but driven to extinction here — are coming back.
Once a landfill site, but since transformed into a unique landscape of wet meadows and pastures, Eastbrookend Country Park in Barking will soon welcome a breeding colony of white storks. They’ll be accompanied by a colony of beavers, following their successful reintroduction in Enfield and Ealing, where – last year – baby kits were born for the first time in over four hundred years.
