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News from the Wychwood Project office and the Friends of Wychwood
Have you seen frog or toad spawn in your garden pond? - January 2012
Join the Big Spawn Count, so that more can be found out about the breeding success of our frogs and toads in garden ponds nationally. Pond Conservation are working with the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) and Amphibian and Reptile Groups of UK (ARGUK) to find out more about the numbers of frogs breeding in garden ponds. They are also keen to find out more about our common toad. Although, toads are less associated with garden ponds – there is some indication that the use of gardens is becoming more frequent due to loss of traditional breeding habitat. This is something Pond Conservation would like to find out more about.
You can take part in the Big Spawn Count by going to your pond and counting the number of spawn clumps present. For more information and to enter your results online, go to the Big Spawn Count pages http://www.pondconservation.org.uk/bigponddip/BigSpawncount
Read the latest update on our Barn Owl project - June 2011
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Find out how Oxfordshire's Biodiversity Action Plan is delivered through a Conservation Target Areas approach - 15 June 2011
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1815 Map of Wychwood - 6 May 2010
View a map entitled “Whichwood Forest with the Park and Purlieus in the county of Oxford, drawn for the Right Hon Lord Francis A. Spencer, Lord Warden and Ranger” (1815).
The BIG story - 14 January 2010
Nick Mottram, Project Director is delighted to announce that, together with the Friends of Wychwood, the Project has recently secured nine hectares (twenty two acres) of farmland on the north-east fringe of Witney with the intention of creating Wychwood’s newest and largest community woodland. The site of the proposed new woodland is part of Southdown Farm to the west of a public bridleway known locally as Milking Lane.
Learn more about this new project.
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