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Norfolk Environmental Action Team August 2024
Here we are in some sort of summer (extreme to extreme, soaking to baking) which means cutting and raking really takes centre stage for a while as we go all out to carry out vital management of the 5% of our wildflower meadows which still remain after a century of intensive farming and development*. There’s also still bracken (and even a little bit of balsam) to knock back lest they take over acres of beautiful and diverse habitats. Just for a bit of variety, we’ve also got a couple of days of ragwort pulling: whilst I (along with cinnabar moth caterpillars) love seeing ragwort in many places, we do need to remove it from some places where it threatens to stop the grazing by animals on which the whole grassland ecosystem relies – in this case parts of Bowthorpe’s extensive and beautiful Southern Park.
So, we continue with dogged determination through the dog days of summer, buoyed up by the knowledge we are making a big difference in lots of different ways. Here’s just one comment from someone passing by the wildflower area we created on Rouen Road: “I live just up there, it brings me so much joy. EVERYONE is talking about it, how much joy this brings them”. Can’t ask for more job satisfaction that that really! See our facebook page (6) TCV Norfolk & Suffolk | Facebook for some photos – it really is a picture…
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This event took place on 31/08/2024 in Norfolk
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