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Glovers Pond

Glovers Pond is a 10 acre site of special scientific interest. We need the funds to buy this area to stop the misuse and waste of a special environmental concern and restore it to its natural beauty.

The Glovers Pond area is now largely secondary woodland consisting of birch and willow with oak and Scots pine. A ditch runs the full length, appearing in part as a fast-flowing stream, through which a large area of the surrounding common drains. There are areas of more open acid grassland under a National Grid pylon line and the remnant of an old paddock. Close to an old boundary bank there are some fine oaks and a notable "ancient" sweet chestnut. Glovers Pond is one of only four sites in Surrey that is home to the tiny, rare, spider Phanatus Striatus.

Papercourt Lock

We are delighted to announce that we have now signed the paperwork and Papercourt Lock officially belongs to Surrey Wildlife Trust.

Papercourt Lock is a 20 hectare (47-acre) floodplain site and part of the Papercourt Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Old Woking and Send. The River Wey Navigation and Broad Mead Cut run along the southern edge of the land and the River Wey meaders around the northern boundary.

The site is a traditional floodplain, with records dating back to before the Norman Conquest, and was previously owned by the Woking Angling Society. For generations, between regular flooding, sheep and cattle grazed this wet grassland creating a unique landscape and wildlife habitat, which is particularly good for birds.

Over the past 60 years, nationally, 40% of our floodplain grazing marshes has been lost, mainly due to agricultural intensification and associated drainage. In Surrey urban development exacerbated the situation, resulting in a 25% loss between 1975 and 1985. This has fragmented the habitat and adversely affected water quantity and quality.

Surrey Wildlife Trust intends to create a new nature reserve at Papercourt Lock to protect this increasingly threatened wildlife habitat, ensure wider public access and introduce a programme of community education.

Waterways for Water Voles

As part of a wider scheme to bring Brookwood Lye back into favourable condition, the ‘Waterways for Water Voles’ project is focusing on extending the area suitable for water voles by improving a stream that flows through Brookwood Farm and Lye and two drainage ditches linking the stream to the wetland area to the north of the canal. SWT surveys had shown a dramatic decline in water vole populations on the Basingstoke Canal (SSSI) and Hoe stream, the two main water bodies at either end of the stream. In the long term, creation of this valuable corridor will allow an isolated colony of water voles living at Brookwood Farm to migrate through Brookwood Lye to the two main water bodies.

Overgrown alder coppice surrounding the stream has been cut back. This has allowed light to reach the stream and will allow growth of emergent and bank side vegetation beneficial to water voles. As the vegetation recovers, it will provide cover for water voles to help them avoid predators, especially mink. Permanent mink detection devices have been also placed on the stream. Marginal shelves have been created to encourage emergent vegetation and 6 new deep pools have been dug to ensure year round water supply, essential for the water voles survival.

Volunteer and public support has been vital to the success of this project so far. Mammal Officer, Dave Williams, and Volunteer Warden, Pete Bickford, have been training volunteers to help with practical management and surveying needed for the restoration and monitoring of the site. Talks and advice sessions for local resident and local land owners have been a huge success. Woking Borough Council have already cleared a ditch on Brookwood Farm, adjacent to the Lye, further extending the water voles range.
    

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