Monthly Archives: April 2016

Lillington Churchyard wall completed!

Saturday April 9th was the day we had chosen for the final work on the Lillington Churchyard wall. We used a lot more of the available stone to raise the height to about 4 ft, then moved the selected coping stones into place. Even though the day was punctuated by heavy hail and rain showers, […]

EuCAN Flickr site updated

We have added three more albums of photos to our Flickr site: a range of photos to illustrate our recent contract work, a collection of photos from our latest activities with the Cerne Valley Community Landscape Project , and recent photos of the EuCAN Dorset Mid-week Volunteers work on the Corton Farm dry-stone wall.  

Conservation working holiday to Transylvania August 2016

We are aiming to take a team to Transylvania in eastern Romania August 6th – 16th to take part in the International Haymaking Festival and to help to clear some of the scrub from the abandoned mountain meadows. We organised a very successful butterfly surveying placement in Transylvania in 2011 – all the information about this can be […]

Fantastic display of Snake’shead Fritillaries in ‘our’ woodland in La Brenne

Tony Williams and Joel Deberge, our friends in La Brenne, have sent us photos and a wonderful report of at least 200 flowers of Snake’shead Fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris, in the area of woodland at La Touche where we have been clearing trees over the last few years to re-instate the flowery meadow that was there […]