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Biodiverse Dengie's mission is to celebrate, protect and enhance the living world across the peninsula and its waterways. We are thinking about and doing stuff with flora, fauna and ecosystems.
Local Nature Recovery
Local Nature Recovery
Biodiverse Dengie is aligned with the aims of The Essex Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
We are working to identify opportunities for nature recovery on the Dengie, acting to help nature on the peninsula.
Trees
Trees
In November 2024, we received 375 sapling trees donated by Maldon District Council and distributed them to groups and individuals across the peninsula - a distributed woodland!
Trees are vital in the landscape, creating windbreaks, reducing wind erosion and drying,
they hold and support healthy soil, they also provide food and shelter for birds, mammals, insects, and microorganisms along with impressing a positive impact on the whole food chain.
These trees will help maintain climate regulation by storing carbon and creating oxygen.
DCAP would like to thank Maldon District Council for donating these trees and creating the opportunity for Dengie communities to increase tree cover & hedges on this peninsula.
New Woodland and Forest Garden
New Woodland and Forest Garden
In February 2025, volunteers planted 100 native tree whips, 16 Essex variety fruit trees, and 53 soft fruit bushes in Jubilee Field, St Lawrence Bay. They worked with the Essex Forest Initiative.
The initiative hopes to further develop the fruit tree area into a "food forest" with more local resident support and funding, which would increase biodiversity and create a wildlife habitat.
Seagrass Meadows
Seagrass Meadows
St Lawrence Bay
Wildlife of Maldon and the Dengie
Wildlife of Maldon and the Dengie
On Thursday 26th February 2026 we hosted an illustrated talk presented by John Buchanan, author of Wildlife of Maldon; The Natural History of a Riverside Town, taking the audience on a tour of the natural highlights of Maldon and the Dengie Peninsula, from Seals to Dragonflies, and much more besides. John went on to describe some of the many changes he has witnessed over the last 25 years, the challenges our wildlife is facing and touched on opportunities for Local Nature Recovery
About John:
John is a lifelong birdwatcher, more recently turning his attention to all forms of wildlife to be found within and around the riverside town of Maldon, where he has lived with his family for the past 25 years. Now semi-retired, he has increasingly spent his time in spreading the word about the value of our local wildlife and the need to protect it. He is particularly proud of being part of the team that created the Ironworks Meadow Community Nature Reserve along the River Chelmer
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