Tag: conservation volunteering
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Wetland
Our local common is maybe nine-tenths close-mown grass. But the remaining tenth, the bit that isn’t a playing field, an exercise area for dogs, a play park or a BMX track, is a precious bit of wildlife habitat being maintained in the face of scrub, ubiquitous litter and threats of invasive development.
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Reed-cutting
In this part of the county there’s very little wetland – so one local patch is looked after by the council’s countryside management service to ensure that this important habitat is looked after properly.
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Coppicing
Time for the second of this winter’s conservation activities in our neck of the woods. A particularly appropriate phrase, that last one, since today we will be coppicing some hazel growing in a corner of a local nature reserve.
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Down the park with the Countryside Service
With autumn well and truly under way, and winter on the horizon, it’s time for conservation volunteering to pick up where it left off last spring. In our neck of the woods this means the arrival of emails from the county council’s Countryside Service listing monthly opportunities to get out into the local great outdoors,…
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