Kevin Guthrie joined Helen Atkinson, Steve Sorah and John Osborne for a UK team volunteer day in London on October 13th, 2014.
The team helped The Conservation Volunteers, a UK environmental charity, to help kick-start their autumn and winter woodland management programme in the Leaf Yard Wood in Regents Park, in the heart of London.
This involved keeping access to the woodland open, clearing bramble and ivy from pathways, as well as coppicing hazel and ash trees, and creating habitats for wildlife such as deadwood hedges.
[Helen Atkinson]
The Wood is generally only opened to the public during guided nature walks and is one of the richest areas for the number of species of fauna and flora and also holds one of three pairs of Tawny Owls that breed in Central London.
We all got stuck in, in pretty wet conditions, and made particular progress creating a fantastic dead hedge for wildlife to hibernate in. You’ll have to take our word for it though as we forgot to take before and after pictures. [by John Osborne]
