It’s official - well, more or less! Winter is on the ebb. Whatever the controversy about the first day of Spring, whether it is the 21st or the 1st of March, as soon as February’s customary reminder of our northern latitude is over and the ice is for now disappearing from the ponds and watercourses around the Humber, so in hop the frogs!
The Humber estuary with its ports and factories is of vital importance for the UK's economy. It is also of outstanding value for birds, seals and other wildlife. Gaining economic growth but at the same time protecting and enhancing the environment is a challenge and is the main task of the Humber INCA.
Naturalist Dr David Bellamy has presented representatives from Scunthorpe's Corus steelworks with an environmental award for creating an artificial nesting ground for rare birds.
