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EuCAN is a Community Interest Company (CIC) working in the UK and other countries of Europe to involve more people and communities in the conservation management of their local environment, by providing training and practical experience for young graduates, potential volunteers and contractors and therapeutic groups, in nature conservation and in sustainable land management.

4 Dec 2024

Habitat management at Hardington Moor NNR

Hardington Moor National Nature Reserve nr West Coker

We are planning to finish the job of cutting and raking up the area of the coarse vegetation on the western side of the reserve - an annual task. 

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6 Dec 2024

Conservation workparty on Broadcroft Quarry Butterfly Reserve, Portland - rescheduled from Nov 22nd.

Broadcroft Quarry Butterfly Reserve, Portland

We will be continuing our programme of work at Broadcroft Quarry, working on scrub regrowth, clematis and bramble.

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10 Dec 2024

Barrington Hill National Nature reserve, nr Ilminster Habitat management - EuCAN Somerset Volunteers

Barrington Hill NNR

There will be plenty of routine maintenance tasks to do - clearing the paths, repairing fences, the annual brushcutting round the ponds etc. 

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11 Dec 2024

Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve - scrub cutting

Lankham Bottom near Cattistock

We will be continuing our task of reducing the bramble and thorn scrub on the reserve

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13 Dec 2024

Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - volunteer workday.

Monmouth Hill near Milton Abbas

This had been an open grassland area for hundreds of years but had become scrubbed over and the grass very rank. 

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13 Dec 2024

Buddleia control Silklake Quarry Conservation site, Portland

Silklake Quarry Conservation site, Portland

The aim today is to cut and/or winch out some of the mature Buddleia bushes that are taking over a lot of the banks on this site.

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18 Dec 2024

Sherborne Terraces SNCI - brushcutting and removing biomass

Sherborne Terraces SNCI

We shall be cutting part of the upper Terraces area and removing the biomass

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