New project officer helping people reconnect with nature at Northumberland reserve
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Chloe Cook will work on Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s new ‘Catch My Drift’ project, which recently received £415,800 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The project is working to improve biodiversity and reconnect people with nature at the 185-hectare site.
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Hide AdAlthough Chloe will be based at Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre, working with the rest of the team, her project assistant role will see her learning practical skills such as reed bed, meadow and woodland management as well as survey training with a view to her leading volunteers on survey tasks on the East Chevington reserve.
Once restrictions have been lifted, she will also be out-and-about helping to host public information and awareness sessions in the area, talking to local groups and meeting visitors to the reserve.
She said: “I’m so happy to have been given this opportunity so soon after finishing university. I have grown up around wildlife, so to be able to make a small contribution to wildlife so close to where I now live is wonderful.”
Chloe, who hails originally from Brighton and is now living in Morpeth, joins from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where she completed a BSc recently graduated with a BSc (Hons) Degree in Ecology before studying for an MSc Degree in Applied Ecology and Conservation at the same university.
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Hide AdPrior to taking up her new role, Chloe volunteered with Natural England’s warden team at Dersingham Bog in North Norfolk.