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Essex Mammal Group
Location: Essex
The water vole is a UK priority species for conservation and is in decline.
Blue House Farm, Essex, is a key site for water voles locally.
The project aims to:
1) extend and enhance water vole habitat at the site;
2) Raise the local community's awareness of water voles and their conservation generally.
The project will: - create ungrazed banks along ditches to provide extra vole habitat;
- restore watercourses to provide dispersal routes allowing colonisation of other sites;
- create higher banks along selected watercourses as winter refuges;
- develop "vole packs" to be distributed to local schools, etc.;
- create interpretation boards at the site;
- run a water vole surveying training day during National Mammal Week to establish a trained local volunteer group to monitor water voles in future;
- run events where the local community can visit the site and participate in the project;
- create a travelling exhibition about the site and project to be taken to talks, fetes and shows;
- visit local primary schools to explain the importance of the site and the project.
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Essex Mammal Group |
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RM6 4JH |
| Finishing Date |
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31st June 2006 |
| Local Community Involvement / Partnerships: |
Essex Wildlife Trust
Environment Agency (Anglian Region) |
| Grants: |
Heritage Lottery Fund: £25,000
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