Wild cranes back in Britain after 400-years

Real good news for environmentalists and nature lovers - wild cranes that had vanished from Britain nearly 400-years ago have reappeared, thanks to a project designed to reintroduce cranes in the wild – the project has been going on since 2009 and, after a couple of false starts, it has succeeded in getting some young cranes hatched.
It seems torrential rains had killed off one chick and another clutch of eggs were eaten and, finally, a few young cranes hatched last year.
It is a major achievement as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 7 August 2015.

The cranes had been hunted to extinction and lost their marshland habitats and they are now officially back and on the wing in Britain. Three young cranes, which had hatched in the wild, took to the skies in two different counties.
Two of them took off on farmland on the Somerset Levels. The third one was born and grew up at the Slimbridge Wetland Centre, Gloucestershire that is run by the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust. The Great Crane Project has set a target of 20 breeding pairs in the South West by 2025.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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