Cradle Farm: Invasive species management, pond and swale creation, and floodplain reconnection
Wed, 18 Dec
|Cradle Farm
This farm walk at Cradle Farm will look into invasive species in the region (Mink, Muntjac and Squirrels) and best practices for their management. We will also explore exciting ideas for pond and swale creation and floodplain reconnection.
Time & Location
18 Dec 2024, 10:00 – 12:45
Cradle Farm, Wigginton, Banbury OX15 4LF, UK
About the Event
The final event for the year will be looking into invasive species control best practices and methods. This is kindly hosted by Cradle Farm, Wigginton. Please meet at: What3words conquests.shampoos.kicks https://w3w.co/conquests.shampoos.kicks
As part of their water vole recovery project, Clare Pitt from BBOWT will be on site to demonstrate their efforts to catch and eradicate the invasive American mink from our region. The traps require very little management (they have a remote sensor that triggers a text message when set off) and this initiative will be essential to the Evenlode Landscape Recovery's ambitions to bring water vole and other vulnerable wildlife back to our area. The Windrush ann Cherwell catchment also have small, fragmented water vole populations hanging on some need a joined-up approach to mink trapping. Come and learn how to be part of of this initiative by hosting a trap.
We will also discuss two other prevalent invasive…