£6,000 cash boost for wildlife conservation
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:50 pmButterflies and dormice will benefit from a grant of more than £6,000, which will be used to support vital conservation work.
Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has received the grant from the Dartmoor National Park Authority's Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund to help support conservation work on five of the charity's nature reserves on Dartmoor.
The grant of £6,155 will fund a programme of 12 corporate volunteering events on Emsworthy, Blackadon, Mill Bottom, Lower East Loundson and the Dunsford nature reserve.
The work will benefit species such the rare high brown fritillary butterfly, which enjoys the sunny slopes in the woodland at Blackadon.
The species has been suffering from the increase of bracken that has been shading out the violets on which the insect feeds.
Other species which will benefit include the threatened marsh fritillary, the dormouse, and birds, the pied flycatcher and blackcap.
The corporate volunteers will help clear scrub, cut and rake bracken and coppice the sites. All these tasks are labour intensive and time-consuming for reserve officers to carry out by themselves.
DWT's corporate relations officer, Tracy Ebbrell, has been pioneering corporate volunteering over the past five years through a programme of work with nearly 100 corporate supporters including EDF Energy, Bardon Aggregates and the Met Office.
She said: "We are committed to get more people out on our nature reserves and making businesses increase their accountability.
"As part of our growing Corporate Supporter Scheme, we are now running a corporate volunteering project which helps us deliver labour intensive habitat management work on our nature reserves and gets businesses involved.
"This grant will help with the costs of staff time, transport, tools and materials for the tasks."
For more information about DWT's corporate work visit: www.devonwildlifetrust.org .
source: http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/displayNod ... eId=143738
Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has received the grant from the Dartmoor National Park Authority's Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund to help support conservation work on five of the charity's nature reserves on Dartmoor.
The grant of £6,155 will fund a programme of 12 corporate volunteering events on Emsworthy, Blackadon, Mill Bottom, Lower East Loundson and the Dunsford nature reserve.
The work will benefit species such the rare high brown fritillary butterfly, which enjoys the sunny slopes in the woodland at Blackadon.
The species has been suffering from the increase of bracken that has been shading out the violets on which the insect feeds.
Other species which will benefit include the threatened marsh fritillary, the dormouse, and birds, the pied flycatcher and blackcap.
The corporate volunteers will help clear scrub, cut and rake bracken and coppice the sites. All these tasks are labour intensive and time-consuming for reserve officers to carry out by themselves.
DWT's corporate relations officer, Tracy Ebbrell, has been pioneering corporate volunteering over the past five years through a programme of work with nearly 100 corporate supporters including EDF Energy, Bardon Aggregates and the Met Office.
She said: "We are committed to get more people out on our nature reserves and making businesses increase their accountability.
"As part of our growing Corporate Supporter Scheme, we are now running a corporate volunteering project which helps us deliver labour intensive habitat management work on our nature reserves and gets businesses involved.
"This grant will help with the costs of staff time, transport, tools and materials for the tasks."
For more information about DWT's corporate work visit: www.devonwildlifetrust.org .
source: http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/displayNod ... eId=143738