Why we do what we do

The whole countryside of Britain is man-made, the result of 5,000 years of settled agriculture of many kinds, and the wildlife that has not gone the way of the wolf, the beaver, the wild boar, and many other formerly British species has changed and adapted during this long history.

To conserve this wildlife, therefore, we have to prevent nature returning our countryside to its original complete forest cover and to maintain the man-made habitats.

We go out, therefore, to clear scrub, to mow meadows and fens, to re-instate ponds, to coppice woodland, and carry out many other tasks on nature reserves and other sites of conservation value.

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