Our Coast, Our Sea - Vote for Druridge Pools in Bovril's Revival Campaign

22 December 2009

Druridge Pools has been nominated as a BOVRIL ‘doing up the great outdoors’ project – to be in with a chance of winning the £20,000 (which would be used to improve habitat and access at the site) we need people to vote!

PLEASE VOTE NOW by logging on at www.bovril.co.uk/revival/. Click on the Vote Here Now sign, add the Project Code: NEOT000240 (Druridge Pools Campaign) and click ‘VOTE’. Voting closes at midnight on 28 February 2010.

Druridge Pools is a wetland habitat on a restored opencast coal mine in Northumberland. A huge variety of birds visit the site each year including a number of wintering wildfowl such as widgeon, teal and goldeneye and last summer, two rare birds – a Raddes warbler
and Glossy ibis both touched down at the sandy beauty spot attracting coach loads of visitors. The site is also important for great crested newts.

In order to maintain this high quality habitat, urgent improvements are required as access facilities are now in a very bad state of disrepair and are in need of urgent updating. The wildlife charity is hoping to win £20,000 from the Bovril Campaign.

If successful, the £20,000 prize money will be well spent on the replacement of a 100 metre boardwalk and bridges across the Pools, the installation of fencing to manage mud banks for wading birds and the replacement of visitor interpretation panels.

This specific project has been nominated as improvements made to the site will ensure the long term survival of this important wetland habitat for future generations of nature lovers to enjoy.