The UK has seen more than 100 separate outbreaks of the disease in the last eight months.

Calls for bird flu vaccine amid country's biggest ever outbreak

In a statement, the reserve confirmed the dead birds have since tested positive for avian flu.

Bird flu outbreak confirmed as more than 30 birds die at reserve

Staff and volunteers at RSPB Minsmere are urging the government to act quickly before the virus spreads further

Actor Samuel West joined the RSPB protest.
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The proposals would see a breeding area the size of eight football pitches lost, as well as three million fish, according to RSPB estimates.

Energy company EDF wants to build a new nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk.

Plans to build the nuclear power station right nextdoor to the nature reserve have been criticised by campaigners

A team of volunteers, all from a rehabilitation unit in Suffolk, are helping to keep an RSPB nature reserve in good shape