Our progress with our ongoing work to support local bat populations has increased above last year’s record achievement. The Woodland, Flora & Fauna Group’s bat box conservation area initiative which began in 2009, has proved to be even more successful this year. This 2021 result is a considerable boost for our group volunteers who have worked […]

Sayers Common Pond / Talbot Field / Super Sunday Event.   This summer we have undertaken many nature conservation activities/events. To cover some of these we combine several of them in one report rather than issue a number of individual ones.   Sayers Common Pond. Following on from our successful barn owl breeding season, group […]

Each summer The Woodland, Flora & Fauna Group undertake a tour of all their owl boxes included in their barn owl conservation area. We also include the tawny owl boxes that remain after the progressive year-on-year destruction inflicted on them by grey squirrels, which resulted in the unfortunate removal of the majority of the 18 […]

The Government’s current policy for all new development to achieve a biodiversity net gain of 10% should be reassuring to those who are anxious about the loss of our natural environment and our dwindling wildlife. In practice it means less, for bringing human habitation closer to whatever close-proximity measures like small areas dedicated to nature […]

The Woodland, Flora & Fauna Group is continuously seeking ways to enhance the survival prospects of local wildlife and when funds become available we undertake new initiatives. At the end of last year we provided bat boxes in a Hassocks woodland with a generous donation towards the total cost from the owner. This increased the […]