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On December 17th, 2020, a group of volunteers from the Oxford Conservation Volunteers were seen in Oxfordshire, England, taking part in an effort to conserve local wildlife. The volunteers were clearing a field of scrub and planting trees in order to help preserve the environment. The Oxford Conservation Volunteers, established one year ago, are working to protect the areas wildlife from disease, agricultural efficiency and urban sprawl. They have over 100 members and are always looking for more volunteers to join their cause.On December 17th, 2020, a group of volunteers from the Oxford Conservation Volunteers were seen in Oxfordshire, England, taking part in an effort to conserve local wildlife. The volunteers were clearing a field of scrub and planting trees in order to help preserve the environment. The Oxford Conservation Volunteers, established one year ago, are working to protect the areas wildlife from disease, agricultural efficiency and urban sprawl. They have over 100 members and are always looking for more volunteers to join their cause.
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THE TROUBLE with concrete jungles is that they spread fas- ter than the real thing. Every new housing estate, factory, road and quarry eats away a little more of the countryside. Even beyond the urban under wildlife con- sprawl, Nature is attack. Disease has deci- mated the tree population. The demands of agricul- tural efficiency have wiped out miles of hedgerow and, as fields grow bigger and barer, the inexorable of retreat tinues. That at least is the vision that haunts groups like the Oxford Conservation Vol- unteers, who have just cele- brated their first anniver- sary. Their weekly forays into Oxfordshire only rural reinforce their fears about the future of the coun- tryside. Camilla Huxley, secret- ary, says: “It’s a battle we can’t ever expect to win. The countryside in Oxford- shire is changing fast into are like deserts. vast areas of open field that “What wildlife we have s coming to depend more and more on isolated reserves, some of which are not even open to the public. “You have to look after plant life if you want to protect insects, birds and animals. It all hangs together.” But wildlife has not yet been reduced to the status of a museum exhibit. More than 50 reserves exist in the three counties of Berk- shire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, many of them under the supervision of the Naturalist Trust. The biggest in Oxford- shire is the Bix Reserve, near Nettlebed, which con- sists of several hundred acres under the control of a full-time warden. At the other end of the scale are small, isolated patches of land where flora and fauna have escaped the farmer’s plough and flour- under the loving ish scrutiny of botanists and nature lovers. When the Conservation Volunteers first started meeting last autumn, they went around many of these reserves, offering their ser- vices. All they charge for are travel expenses and the cost of materials. Very soon, they began receiving a steady flow of requests for their labour- planting trees, building fences, clearing ponds, wood coppicing and toggle- the gentle art of cutting down scrub to pre- lopping serve grassland. “We have now got far more than we could poss- ibly do,” says Camilla. “We are already getting booked up for next spring.” “But there is nothing too earnest about our expedi- tions. It’s treated as a day to enjoy and normally ends up in the pub. It’s a way of getting out of town and that’s why quite a lot of students come along. They like to get away from their books.” 1 Not that the Oxford Con- servation Volunteers think of themselves as a student organisation. The chair- man, Nick Flay, works at Pergamon Press. At least half their 100 members are drawn from the city, the rest being roughly equally divded between the University and the Polytechnic. Members – most of them under 30 years old include a girl who works on the BL pro- duction line at Cowley, a laboratory technician from Radcliffe Infirmary the and many others who don’t know one end of a toggle- lopper from the other. Found member Malcolm Levitt says: “You don’t really need any particular skills. You just learn as you go along.” And that can be quite a challenge when the group takes on one of their “resi- dential tasks,” which last about four days. They were at Aston Row- ant last summer, first fenc- ing in an area of land, then clearing the scrub from the middle and finally and #5 DEC 1778 – triumphantly shepher- ding in a flock of sheep. “Every time we have a residential task, it turns out to be pretty amazing in one way or another,” says Malcolm. “Either it’s bit- terly cold or there’s no food or everyone falls in the pond it’s always great fun.” Now the OCV are trying to involve a wider range of people in their activities. They have already started encouraging and sixth form groups to lend a hand. with scouts They want to work more deiadvantaged. the They also want to help set up groups in other parts of county. the but 84 After 12 months on the defensive the Oxford Con- servation Volunteers have established a foothold. Now they want to start fighting back. Volunteers interested in taking part in the Sunday expeditions should write to Camilla Huxley, Botany School, South Parks Road, Oxford. TUES ONE 2
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