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Hedgerows & Wildlife Corridors

Each year at Nurture Ecology, we like to spend a day using our time, equipment and conservation skills to give back to our Island. 

Hedgerows make great wildlife corridors, which allow wildlife to disperse throughout the countryside. Hedgerows are particularly important for bats, which not only use them for foraging but as a linear corridors between their roosts and nearby foraging, roosting or mating sites.

On the 30th March, the whole team spent the day planting a native hedgerow along a field boundary in St Peter, to connect a known bat roost with St Peter’s Valley Woodland. Despite the heavy rain, spirits were high and we successfully planted 250 metres of hedging, complete with canes for support and biodegradable plastic spirals. We chose to plant a mix of native species including hawthorn, filed maple and hazel, which will attract insects and also provide a dense and thick hedgerow that provides shelter for wildlife.

We hope that the hedgerow will mature to create a wildlife corridor that is not only used by bats but also birds, small mammals and amphibians. 

By Harriet Safe

Nurture Ecology were key for us in recommending many environmental enhancement measures that both helped our application pass and also should result in a real boost to the wildlife at our site. We found the whole team passionate about their work and always eager to listen and incorporate our plans. I would definitely recommend Nurture ecology for anyone looking for a similar service

We have worked together with Nurture Ecology on many of our developments across Jersey. The team are pragmatic and professional with their advice whilst maintaining a collaborative and friendly manner.  We would have no hesitation in recommending Nurture Ecology Limited

Nurture Ecology approached the project in a highly professional yet pragmatic manner, ensuring that all the necessary Planning and Parish requirements were fully met with the minimum of input from us. We wouldn’t hesitate to employ them again and can highly recommend them

Nurture Ecology were thorough in their approach enabling the development to progress in the safest of ways. The wildlife mitigation plans put into place have worked extremely well and Jersey Property Holdings are satisfied that the wildlife in the area will continue to thrive.

Jersey Electricity has employed Nurture Ecology for many projects over the past few years. We have worked with them on projects of varying sizes and complexity, involving both ecological consultancy work and land management works. Each time professional, clear and practical advice has been provided, allowing work to progress whilst minimising our impact on the local environment and prevent breach of any wildlife laws

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