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Winter work well underway

30th January 2025

Our practical conservation volunteers have been hard at work over the winter months. At Howell Hill, aided by our trusty robomower and tree poppers, volunteers cleared 0.39 hectares of scrub to preserve this chalk downland site, home to over 260 flower species. Our volunteers have also been taking good care of our woodlands, assisting with coppicing, fencing hazel coupes and deadhedging at Cucknell’s Wood and Wallis Wood.

We’re encouraged to see wildlife already benefiting from our volunteer’s efforts in the west of the county. After clearing 0.8 hectares of very dense scrub at Royal and Bagmoor Common and building a hibernaculum with the root piles, many frogs and toads have been seen enjoying their new habitat. At Ockham Common,  3 hectares of pine, birch and rhododedron has been cleared by our volunteers, connecting wider areas cleared previously and ensuring this important adder and sand lizard breeding habitat is preserved.