Wild Spaces Fund charity has supplied over 40 dormouse nesting boxes
to aid the national monitoring programme in our woods at Bluebell Hill
on the North Downs escarpment. The 27 acre site, purchased by the Kent
Wildfowling & Conservation Association in 2012, includes mature
mixed deciduous trees and hazel coppice, and is known to hold a healthy
population of dormice.
Run by the People’s Trust for Endangered
Species, the National
Dormouse Monitoring Programme was established in 1988 to meet some
of the requirements of the UK Government Biodiversity Action Plans for
rare and endangered species.
Monitoring sites have steady increased in the number as have the people
involved in dormouse conservation. Registered monitor, Judith Shorter
and her team of helpers have been surveying the hazel
dormice in the Kent Wildfowlers’ woodland at Harris’s Copse for the
past 13 years, and Wild Spaces Fund is delighted to support and assist
them in this important conservation work.
Please help the plight of the dormouse and support our
on-going wildlife conservation projects by making a donation
to our charity.
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