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Plant a bat feast! Any flower that tony hamblin/flpa
attracts moths like
The RHS, Bat Conservation Trust and The this elephant hawk
Wildlife Trusts have have joined forces to
encourage everybody to make steps to attracts bats too
help bats in their area. For example,
planting flowers in your garden which
attract night insects, such as
honeysuckle, evening primrose, globe
artichoke and eryngium will make the
perfect bat feast! Find out how to help
bats in your garden with the new FREE
online guide Stars of the Night, available
on wildaboutgardens.org.uk

Farming for wildlife steve cheshire

The Wildlife Trusts are setting out on a new partnership with Jordans Cereals, who have a

long history of wildlife-friendly farming. Now their 42 farms, totalling 44,500 acres, will

build on that heritage with advice from experts at their local Wildlife Trust, making a

landscape-scale contribution to wildlife and communities.

One of the farms is Manor Farm in Hoggeston,

Buckinghamshire (see back page), where George Morris

and his family have sown wildflower margins to attract

insects and ‘bumblebird’ plants to provide shelter and

food for insects, birds and small mammals through the

winter. Several kilometres of new hedgerows give additional

shelter and food. Among the wildlife benefitting from these

sustainable farming practices are brown hares and farmland

birds: skylarks, yellowhammer, tree sparrows and lesser Under new management:
Bubbenhall Wood
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due to the intensification of farming. Boost for ancient
woodland
The Jordans Farm Partnership will create a model for UK farm in Warwickshire
sustainability and set new standards for nature-friendly farming.

Ric Mellis A crucial new purchase by Warwickshire
Wildlife Trust has filled in the gap between
two existing reserves to create an area of
woodland and grassland bigger than
Hyde Park.

“We now own or manage more than
1,000ha of wild space in Warwickshire,
Coventry and Solihull, for the benefit of
people and wildlife,” said the Chief
Executive Ed Green. “Linking these two
patches means that the wood is now big
enough for us to plan a reintroduction of
dormice. In a county with not much
ancient woodland that’s a big deal.”

Thanks to the many donations from
members and grants from funders that
made the purchase possible, including
National Lottery players, WREN as part of
the Landfill Communities Fund and the
Banister Charitable Trust. More on
warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk

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