Reptielen

In ons kleine landje komen maar liefst drie soorten slangen voor, die ook alle drie nog in onze provincie Fryslân voorkomen. Hiervan is de giftige Adder (Vipera berus) bij het publiek het meest bekend en de Gladde slang (Coronella austriaca) het minst. De derde soort is de Ringslang (Natrix natrix).
In Nederland leven vier soorten hagedissen. Een er van is de Hazelworm. Dit is een pootloze hagedis en lijkt daardoor op een slang.

Klik hieronder op een foto voor meer informatie over het dier.

slangen:	Adder	Ringslang	Gladde slang
hagedissen:	Zandhagedis	Levendbarende hagedis	Hazelworm
zeldzame soorten:	Muurhagedis
exoten:	Roodwangschildpad	Roderattenslang	Geelbuikschildpad

https://knepp.co.uk/rewildingkneppvideo The land at Knepp is not conducive to modern intensive farming. 320 metres of heavy Low Weald clay over a bedrock of limestone, the soil is like concrete in summer and unfathomable porridge in winter. For seventeen years after taking over the 3,500-acre Estate from his grandparents in 1983, Charlie Burrell did his utmost to make Knepp Home Farm profitable but it was impossible to compete with larger, industrialised farms on better soils.

In February 2000 the decision was made to sell the dairy herds and farm machinery, and put the arable out to contract – clearing the Estate’s mountainous debts.

A moment of epiphany came in 2002 when Knepp received Countryside Stewardship funding to restore the Repton park in the middle of the Estate - 350 acres that had been under the plough since the Second World War. The park restoration provided a chance to look at the land in an entirely different way and suggested the possibility of rolling out nature conservation across the whole Estate.

The kind of conservation Charlie had in mind was a ‘process-led’, non-goal-orientated project where, as far as possible, nature takes the driving seat - an approach that has come to be known as ‘rewilding’. He was particularly keen to explore the ideas of grazing ecology promulgated by Dutch ecologist Dr Frans Vera, whose ground-breaking book Grazing Ecology and Forest History, was translated into English from the Dutch in 2000.

In December 2002, Charlie launched his vision for rewilding Knepp by sending a Letter of Intent to Natural England, the government’s advisory body for the environment, setting out his plans to establish ‘A Biodiverse Wilderness Area in the Low Weald of Sussex’.

It took years for the idea to be wholeheartedly supported by government but in 2010 the Knepp Wildland project received Higher Level Stewardship funding. It is now a leading light in the conservation movement, an experiment that has produced astonishing wildlife successes in a relatively short space of time and offers solutions for some of our most pressing problems - like soil restoration, flood mitigation, water and air purification, pollinating insects and carbon sequestration. Visited by numerous conservation organisations, including the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust, as well as policy makers, farmers and landowners, Knepp is shaping the future of nature conservation.

As Professor Sir John Lawton, author of the 2010 Making Space for Nature report says:

"Knepp Estate is one of the most exciting wildlife conservation projects in the UK, and indeed in Europe. If we can bring back nature at this scale and pace just 16 miles from Gatwick airport we can do it anywhere. I’ve seen it. It’s truly wonderful, and it fills me with hope."

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Dragonflies on the Edge'

2021 Autumn Meeting and AGM of the British Dragonfly Society

Date: Saturday 27th November 2021

Venue: Online (Zoom link emailed out on Friday 26th November)

Agenda (subject to change):

9.30am: Welcome

9.45am: Saving White-faced Darters - David Clarke

10.15am: Chartley Moss film - Steve White

10.45am: White-faced Darter Genetics - Dr Anna Muir University of Chester

11.15 am Break

11.30am: The Status of the Southern Damselfly in Dorset – Andrew Brown and Kevin Edge

12.00am: Q & A with available morning speakers

12.30pm Northern Damselfly and Staff Update

1.00pm AGM – everyone is welcome to stay but only members can vote

1.30pm – 2.15pm Lunch – breakout rooms will be open to use for chat

2.15pm Dr Jessica Ware - American Museum of Natural History

2.45pm State of Dragonflies in Britain and Ireland 2021 Overview

3.15pm Break

3.30pm Dainty Damselflies are Back – Steffan, Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust.

4.00pm Q & A with available afternoon speakers

4.30pm Close meeting

(Breakout rooms will stay open until 5.30pm for general chat)

Our events are free and we welcome everyone to attend. As a charity, we do appreciate any donations to help cover our costs and to help fund our work to protect dragonflies and their wetland homes.

Donating via our website is quick, easy and secure:

https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/product/donation/

Publicado el 13 de octubre de 2021 a las 12:45 PM por ahospers