

Wilder Together in the Stour Valley
A partnership for wildlife in the Dedham Vale and Stour Valley

East Bergholt Hedgehog Friendly Village Project
East Bergholt Hedgehog Friendly Village Project . Click to expand.
A joint project between the Dedham Vale AONB and East Bergholt Futures group. The aim was to increase local hedgehog populations by creating hedgehog highways between gardens and to raise awareness of hedgehog friendly gardening.

Boxted Birds, Bees and Bugs Project
Boxted Birds, Bees and Bugs Project . Click to expand.
A project run by Boxted Biodiversity group to raise awareness of the presence and importance of birds, bees and bugs in and around Boxted.

Waldingfield Old School Wood Project
Waldingfield Old School Wood Project. Click to expand.
Old School Wood is a community green space owned by Waldingfield parish council. In 2008 money was raised to buy the land. Now volunteers manage six acres of new woodland and meadow with hedges, ponds and a small orchard of local heritage varieties.

Babergh Project
Babergh Project . Click to expand.
1.375 acres of land, owned by Babergh DC, lay undiscovered in the centre of the village for more than 25 years. The Parish Council negotiated a peppercorn rent and in 2013 a path was cut through the impenetrable blackthorn scrub to reveal a clearing inside of mixed rough grass and bramble, surrounded by oak, elder and hawthorn thicket. Bat boxes and a Barn Owl pole box were installed. Three trees from the Scattered Orchard Project were planted in 2016. The circular path is accessible from Meadow Way and cut regularly to prevent blackthorn and bramble spreading.

Nature Citizen Charity - Cherishing All life
Nature Citizen Charity - Cherishing All life. Click to expand.
'Be a Nature Citizen, create a Nature Space and together we build a Nature Network’
To add information onto this map about your community wildlife projects please email charlottem@essexwt.org.uk 50-100 words and a landscape photo. It’ll be great to see what everyone is doing for nature.