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Please read. Very large site being cleared. Concerned about wildlife!
Paul Anderson
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Hi My company has just been awarded a contract to clear approximately 2 acres of land & level it. I am very concerned about all the wildlife that will be effected. It has 4 metre worth of brambles on the outside, a partial woodland we are clearing & levelling & removing lots of rubble, wood & basically everything. We are very keen to protect all wildlife & do not want to hurt anything once work starts & I have my own wildlife garden & always encourage my clients to do the same. This does trouble me. My questions is this, what can we do before we start works to encourage any wildlife to move? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Paul
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Is there similar habitat nearby for the wildlife to move into?
Is this for a construction job?, there should be surveys and permissions before starting if it is.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I was just wondering what we could do before we begin.
There will be lots of creatures there, and you could do with some professional advice before clearing - some animals are protected. I know when a small building site was prepared near where I used to live they had to re-locate all the slow-worms first. Apparently they laid corrugated sheets down, and each morning, there would be slow-worms curled up in the relative warmth. Easy to catch them - but you have to know where to take them once you've caught them! First port of call would, I think, be your local council for help and advice?
Have a word with the local council - maybe the planning authority to see if there is anything they can advise.
I agree with all of the above ....... plus, get in touch with your local Wildlife Trust - to find out who they are put your postcode into this site http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/your-local-trust
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was thinking of starting 2-3 small controlled fires & that the smell of smoke would trigger an alarm for them to quickly move.
Smoke won't wake hibernating animals.
Neither will human activity - it's as if they're unconscious. We almost trod on a hibernating hedgehog in its bundle of leaves and dried grass as we cleared an overgrown hedgebank. It still didn't wake up and if we'd been forking dried grass etc onto a bonfire we'd probably never have realised it was there! You have to look really closely.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wonder if the local wildlife would want to come out beforehand with some volunteers to see what they could do.