Paradise Fields: From the #1 bestselling author of uplifting feel-good fiction

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The project is a collaboration between Ealing Wildlife Group, Citizen Zoo, Friends of Horsenden Hill and Ealing Council with support from Beaver Trust. Its core objectives will be:

Beavers to make unlikely comeback to urban London after 400

My first Katie Fforde book and my overall feeling towards it is that it is SO dull. The main character is about 42 as far as I can tell but seems to have the characteristics of an 80 year old e.g. she is too old to send a text message and at one point is resigning herself to a life of solitude with her grandchildren who haven't even been born yet(???). If I behave like that in the next 5 years or so someone please tell me to get my act together and stop behaving like a pensioner. A licence has been granted by Natural England to reintroduce Eurasian beavers to Ealing in a controlled enclosure trial at Paradise Fields in North Greenford. This is a joint project between Ealing Wildlife Group (EWG), Ealing Council, Citizen Zoo and Friends of Horsenden Hill and supported by experts at the Beaver Trust. It would also be used by experts to study the animals, and learn how to manage beavers in such an environment, with focus on monitoring effects on water and flood levels. Paradise Fields, promised to the hospice by her good friend Sir Gerald, is the perfect place for the farmers’ market for locals to sell their wares and to raise money and awareness of the local hospice. She is in a comfortable (safe? boring?) relationship with a local realtor, Simon. Her two sons are at university and her daughter is nearly there. She owns her own home and has her dear friend, Viv, to advise (nag?) her about her very unexciting but predictable life. Elliot Newton, co-founder of Citizen Zoo welcomed the beaver licence approval and funding announcement, commenting:To show how people in urban areas can coexist with these charismatic animals in a way that will allow us to scale these efforts throughout the rest of London Beavers are a keystone species, referred to as “ecosystems engineers” and the perfect architects of healthy and biodiverse ecosystems. With their dam and canal creation, they create wetlands and deadwood which create the ideal habitats for insects, amphibians, and even water voles. They also slow the flow of waterways, preventing flooding and filtering water, improving water quality! Learn to manage beavers in the urban context including monitoring flood mitigation effects in an urban catchment We are now facing dual climate and ecological emergencies worldwide, which further threaten our ability to survive on our planet. Despite the harm inflicted on the natural world, we have the power to make amends, and I am committed to ensuring that London is at the vanguard of efforts to reverse the trends of Many people assume beavers are a wilderness species, when in fact we’ve just forgotten how closely we used to live alongside them. We’re so excited to study how beavers interact with an urban river catchment and, crucially, with urban communities. Beavers are a keystone species, manipulating habitat to create biodiverse wetlands where many other species can thrive. Their activities can help combat and adapt to impacts of climate change through carbon capture, reduce flood risk by slowing water flow in times of high rainfall and mitigate drought by holding more water on the land.”

Paradise Fields (Horsenden Hill), Ealing | GoParksLondon

A beautiful area of ancient woodland, grassland, ponds and hedgerows, that provides an opportunity to experience nature and escape from city life. Many people assume beavers to be a wilderness species, but in fact we’ve just forgotten how closely we used to live alongside them. And we’ve forgotten the rich tapestry of life they can bring as engineers of healthy ecosystems. Healthy ecosystems clean our water and air, reduce flooding and drought, capture

Another one where half stars would be handy - a 1.5 here as it's not as bad as Queen Camilla but not good enough to warrant an OK. Dr Roisín Campbell-Palmer, Head of Restoration at the Beaver Trust and licenced ecologist supporting the project believes the Ealing project to be truly unique, offering new insights not previously seen in more rural reintroduction projects. Beaver Trust is a climate and nature restoration charity restoring beavers to regenerate our landscapes. They provide practical solutions to help people live alongside beavers and support legislation that rebuilds ecosystems and strengthens climate resilience in a time of ecological and climate crisis. Beavers are to be introduced into urban London for the first time since they were hunted to extinction 400 years ago. What beavers do is create really rich and diverse wetland habitats. They will take even a small, little stream and they will turn it into a series of pools and marshes and wet meadows by damming the stream and creating deeper water.”

There Are Plans To Reintroduce Wild Beavers To Ealing

The project, led by Ealing Wildlife Group, Ealing Council and other conservation groups, will mark the first time beavers have been introduced to such an urban area. Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.' AJ PEARCE A battle, led by Nel and supported by Viv and the rest of the villagers begin. It seems that the battle will involve the stranger, who is now introduced as Jake, and not in a good way. Nel would like to think that Jake is on the side of the village, but so many incidents make it clear that he is not. Nel fights up to the eleventh hour when it looks as though she has finally run out of time and money to save her beloved Paradise Fields. Nel’s life gets turned upside down when she receives a kiss from a stranger at the farmers’ market. Of course, she was selling mistletoe; so that would surely explain it. But the stranger keeps coming in and out of her life at the oddest times and that is how she finds out that her beloved Paradise Fields is being taken over by Sir Gerald’s son and his flashy American wife and their plans do not include anything that would benefit the children’s hospice. There is a handsome young love interest (around a year younger than the woman as far as I can tell, which of course makes him unobtainable) who likes her, she likes him and yet she is constantly vile to him. This is because she believes that the occasion that she bumped into him whilst stalking her daughter in a night club in London (‘cos London is really small and you’re likely to bump into people you know like that, especially when neither of you actually LIVE in London) was in fact a cunning ruse to seduce her to stop her from protesting about the hospice plans as he is a solicitor for one of the interested parties. What???

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Since then, they have been released in Forty Hall Farm, on the outskirts of north London, and in projects in Hampshire, Devon and Cumbria.