Working with farmers and landowners
We want to work with farmers and their representative organisations to find the best way to incorporate more trees into a productive farmed landscape.
With the help of volunteers, reserves officer Andy has been exploring the history of our heathland sites...
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occurs in around 50 sites in England.
Bladder campion is so-called for the bladder-like bulge that sites just behind the five-petalled flower - this is actually the fused sepals. Look for it on grasslands, farmland and along hedgerows…