Activists Use Folklore To Inspire Conservation Effort To Resurrect A Ghost Of England’s Past

Activists Use Folklore To Inspire Conservation Effort To Resurrect A Ghost Of England’s Past

Activists Use Folklore To Inspire Conservation Effort To Resurrect A Ghost Of England’s Past The Somerset Eel Recovery Project releasing eels into the River Brue – credit, Somerset Eel Recovery Project According to the reporter Amelia Hill, residents of southwest England used to be able to pay their land rent with their catch of European eel. She continues: songs were sung about the eel, lanes and canals and beaches were named after the eel; but those days are nearly gone. With eel populations down 99% in Somerset county, a group of conservationists dedicated  as much to folklore as to science, are making a difference in reviving the eel’s presence in Somerset’s waterways as much as in Somerset’s people. There are all kinds of different ways to run a conservation program to save an endangered species, but it’s almost guaranteed you’ll never have read anything like what the Somerset Eel Recovery Project gets up to. Amelia Hill spoke with one of the project’s co-founders, Vanessa Becker-Hughe…