Hearts and Minds: the Farmers helping save the Turtle Dove
In this wonderful video, our client and farming landowner Teresa Rous explains what turtle doves mean to her.
Across Britain, many farmers enormously lament the loss of beloved species that have vanished within their lifetime. Our role at Restore is to help put those species back.
Fortunately, thanks to some wonderful fortress like hedgerows and feeding ponds, Dennington Hall Farms in Suffolk still retains a small breeding population of turtle doves; our fastest vanishing breeding bird.
By reinstating low nutrient areas rich in weeds and wildflowers, increasing natural scrub and shallow wetlands, Restore will be working alongside the farm and its brilliant farm manager, Ryan McCormack, to rapidly increase turtle dove habitat over the coming years.
It’s the passion of farmers like Teresa, however, that make our job such a pleasure - and as always it’s very much a team effort when it comes to work on the ground!
We can’t wait till 2025 as we enter our second season. 🐤
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