News for Nature & wildlife

Introducing our new Mend the Gap Programme Manager, Ruth Staples-Rolfe

We’re pleased to welcome a new Programme Manager who will take the Mend the Gap project forwards, Ruth Staples-Rolfe.   Mend the Gap aims to deliver projects and schemes to reduce and compensate for the visual harm done to the Chilterns and North Wessex Downs AONBs by the electrification of the Great Western main line....

New film: National Hedgelaying Championships comes to the Chilterns

Did you know hedges were used as living fences, marking ownership and keeping animals in or out of a field? However, over time, gaps in the hedgerows develop allowing animals to escape or trample crops. For years this has been managed with a technique called hedge laying, which involves cutting each stem and laying it down...

Out and About: 4 Conservation Stories from Chalk, Cherries and Chairs

Our Chalk Cherries and Chairs landscape partnership team are always busy out and about with people enhancing the landscape of the central Chilterns, working to encourage native wildlife and plantlife. Conservation volunteers and farmers and even young people, school children and business people are all involved caring for their local green spaces in the Chilterns...