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| Scarlet
tiger moth Callimorpha dominula. Image courtesy
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A
grant from us enabled The
Northmoor Trust to purchase a significant number of Longworth
small mammal traps. Importantly, these do not harm the animals they
capture. The traps have allowed this important organisation to monitor
populations of small mammals on their conservation research farm and
to make agricultural policy recommendations based on their findings.
We intend to support an ongoing research project looking at, for example,
mobility and colonisation of newly created woodlands by invertebrates
and changes in plant diversity resulting from more environmentally
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| One World Wildlife considers that more sustainable and more environmentally
friendly farming is the way forward and is keen to encourage and support
similar work. We believe that alternative approaches developed as
a result of research such as that undertaken by The Northmoor Trust
will benefit a host of rare and endangered animal and plants, the
people employed on the land and the many of us who value the British
countryside. |
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| Long-eared
bats, Plecotus auritus. Image courtesy Celia Maier |
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| Horspath railway tunnel before protection. Image courtesy Celia Maier |
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| The
conservation area in front of the tunnel under construction.
Image courtesy Celia Maier. |
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British
bats are increasingly threatened by the activities of mankind. As
well as threats from agricultural chemicals their breeding and hibernating
sites suffer from human disturbance. A valuable opportunity has arisen
whereby One World Wildlife will fund the construction of
two barriers at either end of a disused railway tunnel in Horspath,
near Oxford, that acts as an important over-wintering site for a range
of declining or endangered bat species. By providing grilles across
the entrances, that do not obstruct access to bats, these ecologically
important animals will remain undisturbed and their numbers and diversity
should increase with time as has occurred at a similar site in the
village of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. As a result of the actions
of the Oxfordshire
Bat group the endangered Lesser Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus
hipposideros) now overwinters at Chipping Norton. The Horspath
site will be continually monitored by members of the Oxfordshire Bat
Group. |
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undertake ecological monitoring of threatened species or those whose
current status is unclear. We have, for example assisted in monitoring
and have located populations of the rare moth species the buttoned
snout (Hypena rostralis) and the four-spotted moth (Tyta
luctuosa). Similarly we are consulted on habitat management schemes
including a large-scale wetland creation project and long-term management
planning for land owned by another UK-based Trust. |
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| The
red fox, Vulpes vulpes. Although heavily persecuted
it is an important component of any healthy ecosystem |
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| Once
rare wild flowers such as corn marigolds, Chrysanthemum segetum,
quickly benefit from less intensive farming practises. |
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| Habitat loss and increasing road traffic driving our wildlife to extinction |
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| We are finding ways in which farming can remain productive whilst being less harmful to wildlife |
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