The international team, which included WWT, Durrell Wildlife Conservation ... Madagascar for the best site to bring the captive-bred birds back to the wild, settling on Lake Sofia in the north ...

The "lifeboat sites", managed by the WWT and RSPB, are designed to be healthy wetland habitats, accessible even when the surrounding area is flooded, giving birds somewhere suitable to nest.

They visit the London Wetlands Centre, part of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), where they observe birds from a hide and find out about the correct food for ducks. Back at school ...