London sent more than 3 million tonnes of excavated railway soil to an Essex island to help rebuild coastal wetlands; a decade after seawalls were breached, the reserve reported a record 39,000 wintering birds

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The soil was used to lift the ground and form wetlands designed to provide feeding, nesting and refuelling areas for birds