A sad day for all at The Great Crane Project.

 Peter on the Someset Levels, Autumn 2009.

On Saturday we heard the sad news that Peter Newbery, one of the founding members of The Great Crane Project, and a friend and inspiration to many of us had died. 

Peter had a long career in nature conservation, starting work with the RSPB in the investigations team, before moving to reserves ecology and then becoming a regional officer in the former Thames Region.   He then joined species recovery at the RSPB’s head quarters and made a major contribution to some iconic projects: Cirl Bunting, Corncrake, Red Kite and most recently The Great Crane project.

Peter had been ill for some time, but remained positive and in high spirits. 

He will forever be an essential and integral part of this project in the minds of all those involved in it, and will be sorely missed.    Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this sad time.

About the author

Damon’s role is to act as the hub of the project - making sure everyone involved knows what is going on and that it is all running smoothly. He is also responsible for project community awareness work in Somerset, construction of the release enclosure, and running the post release monitoring work in Somerset.  Damon works alongside the RSPB reserve teams in Somerset.