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When and where?
Dates: SW Conservation Work Days are held on the second Sunday of each month.
Time: 10am - 3pm
You can stay for as long as you want, even for just an hour. If you want to come after 10am, find us by phoning the SW mobile (07881 977481) or see the car park notice board map. If it’s raining, phone 01865 874423 or the SW mobile to check if the Conservation Work Day is going ahead.
Where: Meet at 10am at the Shotover Car Park, Old Road, Headington, Oxford. See above if arriving after 10am.
Other information:
About SW Conservation Work Days
We need as much practical help as we can get from people who care about wildlife in this large and complex nature reserve. If you can spare a few hours, come and join us in making a real difference to wildlife diversity at Shotover. You don’t need any previous experience, as we provide all necessary guidance and instruction.
You can go at your own pace and stay for as long as you want, even for just an hour. If you want to come after 10am, find us by phoning the SW mobile (07881 977481) or see the car park notice board map. If it’s raining, phone 01865 874423 or the SW mobile to check if the Conservation Work Day is going ahead.
Work supervised by Shotover Wildlife has full insurance cover.
All information on this page is available in our leaflet Conservation Work Days on Shotover.
What work might you be doing?
Our conservation work is based on specialist knowledge, research by Shotover Wildlife, and guidance from Natural England.
What are the rewards?
Why does Shotover need conserving?
Shotover’s habitats have gradually become less diverse over the decades. We know this through comparing our own survey work with Shotover’s long history of recorded wildlife. Shotover has SSSI status because it supports habitats that are rare in Oxfordshire, and therefore, some of the associated plants and insects are also rare.
What is conservation?
The world is teaming with wildlife, from the rainforests of Brazil to the Canadian tundra. The British Isles is no different, with many thousands of species of wild plants, animals, insects, birds, fungi etc. Wildlife is everywhere, but it is also in decline. Some species are threatened with extinction, even in Britain, and one of the aims of Shotover Wildlife is to prevent the loss of rare species from Shotover. Knowledge-based conservation is the key to preventing the decline of wildlife diversity.
How is wildlife protected in the British Isles?
Wildlife is an integral part of our environment. If we do nothing to conserve it, it will gradually disappear, or get built on. The government and other national organisations believe that wildlife diversity of the British Isles should be conserved and protected, and so we have a system of nationally recognized statuses or ‘designations’ for protecting our wildlife. Probably the best-known designated sites are the National Nature Reserves (NNR) such as Snowdonia, the Lake District, and the New Forest. Following the NNR, is the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), of which Brasenose Wood and Shotover Hill is one, and is among the largest in Oxfordshire.
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