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This year we have funded...
Snape's community woodland which now has new fencing, gates, a sign, a pond, trees, stakes and tubes as a result of kind donations from our visitors. Strong links have been made with Snape Primary School and the children are involved in design, planning, planting trees and caring for the school nursery.
The provision of Suffolk Wildlife Trust wildlife borrow boxes at Foxburrow Farm. These provide children visiting the farm with practical resources such as binoculars, field guides, reference books, magnifying and viewing equipment, compasses and a simple microscope. Each box also contains worksheets produced by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust to enhance ecological activities back at school and to link the children's daily environment to the wider enjoyment of the AONB.
If you are a keen bird watcher, you'll be delighted to know we have supported the purchase of a RSPB telescope for Havergate nature reserve. The telescope is being used for surveying and monitoring work on Havergate Island. The island is home to nationally important numbers of breeding avocets and terns and in autumn and winter the island provides a haven for large numbers of ducks and wading birds. In addition to birds, the lagoons support a wide variety of specialist invertebrates including the rare starlet sea anemone.
We are also helping Owls to breed by erecting at least 20 barn owl nest boxes as part of the Suffolk Community Barn Owl Project. The aim of this project is to erect as many barn owl nestboxes as possible. In addition, the project team is going to aim to locate all existing breeding pairs of barn owls as part of the British Trust for Ornithology Barn owl monitoring programme.
Last, but certainly not least, this coming winter our donations will go towards building wooden steps to aid access to Top Hat Wood which surrounds the National Trust Sutton Hoo estate. The path leading through Top Hat Wood is on one of the main visitor paths around the Sutton Hoo estate and is well used. The steep slope at the top of the route has become very degraded and the National Trust aim to build wooden steps through this section for a length of 20 metres.
So thanks to our funding and all of our kind visitor donations, not only will the Suffolk landscape and wildlife benefit hugely, but on visits around the county you too will reap the rewards.
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