The Great Big Dorset Hedge is DorsetCAN’s campaign to survey, map, plant, expand, and join up sections of hedgerow across Dorset into multiple corridors that promote biodiversity and help wildlife of all sorts. You can gauge its remarkable success when you know it’s already been featured on the BBC, in The Times and many other places (see News below).
The campaign has received a grant award from Dorset AONB to support community engagement. The core team of Julie Leah, Ian Duckworth, John Calder, Sheila Hawkins and John Blanchard have now got a detailed survey system, map and methodology in place. Initial surveys are going well with great strides in surveying areas of the Jubilee Trail in West and North Dorset and on Dorset Wildlife Trust Land and other private estates. Surveys are about to start in Wareham, the Wessex Ridgeway and in the Lyme Area and the Brit Valley.
The campaign is looking for volunteers- can you help?
For more information – www.dorsetcan.org/hedge
For more information – www.dorsetcan.org/hedge