VOLUNTEERS from Malvern Hills Conservators have been out and about carrying out restoration works to rural hedgerows.
The work has been made possible in part by Malvern Hills Rotary Club, which successfully applied for funding from the Woodland Trust to pay for for packs of native hedgerow plants.
19 Conservators volunteers, plus two Rotary Club members, braved the winter cold to plant over 80 native shrubs and trees, including crab apple, dog rose and oak to fill large gaps in the hedge line along Brockhill Road in West Malvern.
The work will ensure that the coppiced woodland of Parkwood in West Malvern is connected to other nearby woodland habitats.
Beck Baker of the Conservators said: "Hedgerows are becoming increasingly important features in the UK’s countryside. As woodlands become more fragmented and separated from other patches of woodland, hedgerows form a wildlife highway along which birds, mammals and other creatures can travel in relative safety."
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