Crockham Hill February 2025 Newsletter - Flipbook - Page 9
Wildlife Society
In 2019, inspired by Isabella Tree9s lecture on the 8Knepp experiment9, we
started our own project to create new habitats for wildlife in Crockham Hill.
We organised farm walks and lectures on owls, reptiles, and birdsong. We
also wrote and published 8A Handbook of Wildlife Restoration9 to stimulate
thinking and action in Crockham Hill, and to show how to reduce the
threats to local wildlife. There are sections on gardening for wildlife, on
wild paddocks, and wildlife on farms. Copies are available free from Sandra.
We proposed interlinked wildlife corridors, ponds, wildflower meadows,
thicker and higher hedges, rough grassland, and new areas of scrub. Our
team encouraged as many locals as possible to take part, including the
management of Andrewsfield, an acre south of the Churchyard, as a
wildflower and picnic area.
On 14th March Sandra Taekema hosted a meeting of ten residents to build
on the work of the Crockham Hill Wildlife Restoration Society. We agreed
to form subgroups for Wildflower meadows, Gardens, Wildlife Corridors
and Education to help nature
recover lost wildlife habitats,
and to encourage owners and
managers of land in the village
to collaborate on ways to
restore endangered species.
If there are ways to restore
wildlife that you would like to
see in your garden, or around
Crockham Hill, and things you
would enjoy doing, with others,
in order to achieve them, then
you can help. Please contact
Sandra on 07540 117511, and
come to our next meeting on
11th April at 2.00pm at The
Oast House, Mariners TN16
1PS.
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