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will see your lawn transition to a wildflower meadow (you can also sow seeds to
POP IN PLACE NEWS help with this). It’s estimated that gardens in the UK make up 430,000 hectares of
land (Wild Woodbury is 170 hectares for context), which is a massive number, and
Thanks you to all who supported our an amazing opportunity for us all to help our native invertebrates and other
recent Community Production The Lion wildlife.
King For the past few school holidays, I have been engaging with the Wild Ones group
that runs at Lower Woodbury, adjacent to Wild Woodbury. We’ve had a few
When you put on a community show there are so many sessions recently where we’ve been pond dipping in the newly created wetlands
people involved, in so many different ways, of course there is the wonderful all on site, having completed the hydrology restoration in December. I wasn’t really
age cast that worked so hard on this production. We certainly have some new sure what to expect in these sessions, as the wetter areas are really quite new, but
rising stars in our midst. we had a great couple of days and found plenty of exciting wildlife! The highlight
for me were a couple of juvenile Smooth Newt, loads of newly emerged froglets,
and lots of diving beetles. This is a brilliant start for the water restoration and bodes
very well for the coming months and years.
As always, should you want to get in touch about Wild Woodbury, please feel free
to drop me an email at shaggett@dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Thank you to Lucy Cruickshank for painting the backdrop, to Barbara Crowe and
Amy Belcher for doing the face painting to Laura Maunder for making costumes
and to Jon Maunder for the great photographs to Paul Bennett for filming and to
Rod Osmond for editing and producing the DVD.
Thank you to everyone who donated prizes for our raffle.
Thank you if you came along to any of the three different showings and made up
part of the audiences.
Also thank you to the show team who have helped out with all the back stage,

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