Improving our Habitat

Our Strategy:

1. Discover and understand the full extent of our parish biodiversity.
2. Support Surrey and Hampshire Wildlife Trusts, in particular helping with Heathland to support their key objectives.
3. Enhance and improve:
   • The Areas of ancient woodland.
   • Our hedgerows across the parish to enhance the movement of birds, small mammals, reptiles, and insects across the parish in all directions whilst also increasing plant biodiversity.

What’s Going On?

• Ancient Woodland: We now have 4 landowners working with the Ancient Woodland Trust to improve their woodland.
• Hedgerows: With Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) we have agreed to create a network of hedgerows (a dormouse superhighway) that connects the majority the ancient woodland areas. The aim is to enable the free movement of dormice from one area of woodland to another.

Advice and Guidance

• Suffolk Wildlife Trust introductory guide to hedgerow planting.
• Suffolk Wildlife Trust introductory guide to hedgerow management.