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Norfolk Ponds Project

@norfolkponds.bsky.social

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Science-led NGO restoring & conserving Norfolk's ponds. Pioneers of #ghostpond resurrection & farm pond restoration. Crucian carp, eels, stoneworts, birds, bats, pollinators. Come yew orn: www.norfolkponds.org

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hello @bsky.app. we are Norfolk Ponds Project - a science-led partnership NGO focused on pond restoration & #ghostpond ressurection. We aim to educate, lobby & inspire others on ponds. We used to Tweet & had 5000+ followers. ***Please follow & help us achieve the same here***!!!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 5d

The great Helen Greaves representing us at the Norfolk Biodiversity Partnership Community Biodiversity Fair today @theforumnorwich.bsky.social promoting ponds, #pond restoration & of course #ghostpond resurrection

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 15d

Wow. Stunning. I guess key Q is what is the chemistry of this pool? It would be really good to have a chat & pool knowledge on where good translocation sites might be for some of Norfolk's v rare aquatics. Some can come back from seeds. But others def need our help!

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 15d

I've never seen it. Just do rare! Yes species like this do need conservation in their last remaining places.

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 15d

Have you ever come across U. intermedia?

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 15d

Oh wow. Just brilliant ancient place botany :)

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 15d

Just a huge thanks Patrick for a wonderful article. So appreciated :)

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 15d

In case you missed it: lots of amazing and heartening pond restoration going on. Research is likely to confirm that seeds "lost" in the bottom of filled-in ponds can remain viable for 100s of years so ponds and their aquatic plants leap back to life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

www.theguardian.com

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 18d

My money is on Lemna trisulca rising up like a wild thing & taking them both!!!

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 18d

Ghost ponds and overgrown ponds in Norfolk are being recovered and restored in an extraordinary conservation project in which sound is being used to measure the health of a pond....

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Ghost Ponds and Underwater Songs

In Norfolk, ghost ponds are being recovered, restored and heard to sing once again.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 18d

A good sized toad that one. If viewed through the bottom of a pint glass it could look even bigger.

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 18d

No planning permission needed :)

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 19d

A resurrected Ice age #pond in Norfolk, E. England. Dug to draw in extraterrestrials. It took 1 day to bring back. The black soil is full of seeds. The excavation will fill over winter & be amazing by summer. Photo @hburningham.bsky.social @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social @timholtwilson.bsky.social

A resurrected ancient ghost pond see from a drone

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 19d

Its more complicated than that tho. How did they get straight back into ponds (100s of them!) after drying. Dispersal just can't be that effective!!! Do get in touch if wanna chat & debate / help!!! - Carl Sayer.

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 20d

‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

www.theguardian.com

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20d

Dig and add water!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20d

A fab pic of mollusc wonderboy @danhoare.bsky.social who we are pleased to have tempted out of the broadband swamps into the team :)

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20d

Big big thanks to the brilliant @patrickbarkham.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20d

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20d

Honestly. Anything could happen but know it will be amazing...

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 21d

4/4: Other items of high historical & culture significance include this Saxon soil cistern & a shard from a mesolithic marmalade jar. The latter was probably owned by a nomadic European aurochsen hurder. We have contacted the British Museum

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 21d

3/4: Much important #pond archaeology was found including this medieval witch's cauldron (modelled by @frogsatuea.bsky.social) containing burnt wood & bones likely of the locally abundant meso-predator Shuckus rougiensus. A spell or a meal? @mattpope.bsky.social

A strange rusty cauldron like vessel held aloft

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 21d

2/4: We dug it out today being careful to expose as much seed-rich deeper mud as possible - sediments laid down in the landscape of likely 100s years ago

A pond being dug out showing streaks of marl

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 21d

1/4: We restored the biggest Norfolk farmland #pond we have ever worked on over the last 3 days. 50 x 25 m. Huge amounts of willow was removed by our volunteers followed by much chainsaw work @patrickbarkham.bsky.social

Many volunteers smiling in an overgrown pond

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 24d

Willow. Both.

Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 24d

We have been described as "THE BEST NGO THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT"

Please help by following us & reposting!!!

A stunning dreamy planty pond. Pond covered in pondweeds

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