FREE talk: The Somerset Eel Recovery Project

Vanessa Becker-Hughes, a founding Director of the Somerset Eel Recovery Project, will share fascinating information about the lives of eels, which are native to the Somerset Levels. Eels are notoriously elusive and endangered creatures, that travel 6,000 miles to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and die. Vanessa will also talk about a new nature mapping project along the Brue and Axe, which she has launched in partnership with the Brue Crew.

This talk has been organised as part of Discover Nature fortnight, by the Step, Ride, Thrive project. The fortnight aims to connect people with nature across the Avalon Marshes reserves and in their local communities - and to promote active travel opportunities, including walking, cycling, and the pilot 668 bus from Street and Glastonbury to the Avalon Marshes Centre.
Step, Ride, Thrive is led by 23 parishes within Avalon and the Poldens and is funded by a grant from Somerset Council and the Somerset Association of Local Councils (SALC).

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