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Thursday 19th June 2025 - It was another sweltering day for the dedicated band of volunteers as they descended on the minimally shaded Roundshaw Downs.

With the surveying squad carrying out 20 condition assessment stops each to the South and North cattle paddocks the action team started a methodical sweep across the Downs removing Ragwort and any flowering Hogweed.
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Tuesday 17th June 2025 - It was a hot day but made it was made bearable with the breeze passing overhead as the team carried out todays tasks at Cuddington Rec.

As a couple of the volunteers set about pushing Bramble regrowth back from paths and hedgelines, a larger division of the squad managed to complete surveys on three distinct areas of the re-wilded site.
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⚠️🐶Did you know that common flea treatments for pets can be toxic to aquatic life — even in tiny amounts?

If your dog goes for a swim in a chalk stream or any natural water shortly after treatment, the chemicals designed to kill fleas can wash off and harm local wildlife.

Data from the Environment Agency indicates that three common insecticides used in tick, flea and worm treatments are present in English rivers in concentrations that exceed accepted safe limits for wildlife.

Alarmingly, these same chemicals are too toxic to be legally used in agriculture!

How can I help?

It is important not to let your pet in the river if it has been treated with spot-on tick, flea and worm treatment. If you want to let your pet in the river, choose tablet treatment instead of spot-on!

For more information, including chemical-free alternatives for treating and preventing fleas on pets, visit https://theriverstrust.org/about-us/news/flea-mergency-pet-treatments-taking-a-bite-out-of-the-health-of-englands-rivers

#WatercressAndWinterbournes is a Landscape Partnership Scheme with Wessex Rivers Trust which is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
#chalkstreams #wildlife
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Thursday 12th June 2025 - A large team were out in force for todays task at Sutton Common.

From the muggy feeling start via a midday shower spree to a post lunch roasting the team set about completing the sites rapid assessment and phase 1 surveys, cutting back protruding Bramble from hedgelines, brushcutting well trodden paths from the dominance of Perennial Ryegrass and White Clover and lastly combing the meadow and dead-heading Docks to curb future spreading as much as possible.
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Sutton Nature Conservation Volunteers2 weeks ago
Tuesday 10th June 2025 - Being joined by two new faces to the fair sized team the taskday was easily split between more physical works at one site and something more studious at another.

With a rainless day on the forecast a smaller division of the team headed to Wellfields West and East to begin this years botanical surveys with rapid grassland assessments and a more encompassing phase 1 survey.

Meanwhile back at Queen Marys Woodland the remaining volunteers set about a spot of light vegetation control, brushcutting the transitional margins around the central path and engaging in a bit of light weeding and pruning to protruding pathside Bramble, patches of dense Nettle and low hanging twiggy branches that had become an obstacle.
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