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December 2019 December 2019
BERE REGIS WILDLIFE AND

ENVIRONMENT GROUP

Join Us on our Conservation Working
Parties

Please come and join us at the next Working Party –
Saturday 7 December - many hands make for light
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work; all are welcome (under 16s should be
accompanied by an adult). No experience is required, there’s a friendly crowd
and it is great fun and exercise too! Or, just pop along and find out more about
what we are doing.
We will meet by the stream bridge near to the Scout Hut, Elder Road at 10am or
you can find us along the river. We normally finish about 12.30. If you have some
loppers or hand saws please bring them with you – if you don’t, no problem we’ll
have some spares along with other tools. Our efforts are helping to conserve the
best of what is already present along the riverside walkway and is intended to
make the area even more wildlife friendly.
Further work parties will be held in the New Year, dates to be announced.

November Conservation Working Party
Our November work party was a very damp affair, but it didn’t dissuade our trusty
band of volunteers! We concentrated on the area alongside the boardwalk by
the river. We both coppiced and laid some stretches of hedges that had grown
up alongside the stream. This has a number of benefits – it opens up the river to
view for people walking along the boardwalk, it enables more light to reach the
stream thus allowing growth of aquatic plants, and the newly laid hedge provides
great cover for small mammals, small birds and invertebrates. You can see the
before and after for some of our work in the photos, but do pop down and see
for yourself; better still, come and join us for the December working party – we
have plenty to do and more helpers are needed.

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