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BBOWT is working with

                                  Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
                                  and Cotswold Rivers Trust
                                  on five integrated habitat
                                  management improvements
                                  on the upper reaches of the
                                  River Windrush as part of
                                  our Upper Thames Living
                                  Landscape project.

Bucks team attended nine          BBOWT petitioned the House of Commons Select
                                  Committee on HS2 three times and secured agreement for
external events in the county,
three of them were family         five 'green bridges' to link nearby habitats in Bernwood Forest
events with The Parks Trust, one  to benefit wildlife, including the nationally-rare Bechstein's bat.
of our valued partners.

                                  2015 Oxford Festival of
                                  Nature included more than

                                  60 events and attracted more
                                  than 10,000 people. The Wild
                                  Fair at the Oxford University
                                  Museum of Natural History
                                  was attended by 4,500 people.

More people can enjoy                      365
                                       biological
visiting our West Berkshire          surveys were
sites thanks to grants from       carried out by 130
Greenham Common Trust and         volunteers on 81
Grundon Waste Management             of our nature
Ltd towards new interpretation          reserves
boards, tracks and paths, gates,
road crossings and upgraded
facilities at these valuable
heathland reserves.
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