Ox Close Wood and the East Keswick Wildlife Trust

摘要

Much has been published recently about the dramatic declines in our countryside's wildlife. Reports from the major conservation organisations such as the RSPB, Woodland Trust and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, all record evidence of the continuing declinein the UK's wild places. One conservation charity in Yorkshire, East Keswick Wildlife Trust (EKWT), is trying to stem these declines. Founded in 1992 to raise funds to purchase the 35-acre mixed species and part ancient woodland Ox Close, this independent, parish-based Trust has been purchasing sites and working with local landowners by encouraging management for the benefit of the flora and fauna for the last 20 years. In 1994 it took out management agreements on Parish Council-owned landholdings comprising species-rich marsh, wetland, and a Magnesian Limestone quarry and its adjoining pasture. Since then the Trust's conservation work has gone from strength to strength.