Open Meeting Thursday 27th February at 7.30pm

come and join us at Redbourn Village Hall, AL3 7LW; FREE event – all welcome

Conservation on the Chilterns Chalk, Guest speakers: Nick Marriner & Melinda Dresser from Chilterns National Landscape

There’s something for everyone and there’s sure to be plenty of advice on how to give our local wildlife a helping hand. Nick and Melinda will share their experience setting up and delivering landscape scale conservation projects across the Central Chilterns, and more latterly the North Chilterns. Covering the establishment of farmer clusters, they will highlight the work supporting inspiring farmers to create and manage habitat across their farms – from chalk grassland restoration to hedgerow planting, soil health and everything in between.

Nick will also talk about the ‘Tracking the Impact’ project, his work with a team of 200+ volunteers carrying out bird, butterfly and plant surveys to track the impact of the work in conjunction with the BTO, Butterfly Conservation, Plantlife and BMERC.

As usual, there will be a brief report on the state of the river, topical Ver Valley news and plenty of time for any questions from the floor.

(Pics: Adonis Blue ©Allen Beechey; Cluster farm hedge ©Nick Marriner; Conservation grazing with Galloways ©Nick Marriner)