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EuCAN is a Community Interest Company (CIC) working in the UK and other countries of Europe to involve more people and communities in the conservation management of their local environment, by providing training and practical experience for young graduates, potential volunteers and contractors and therapeutic groups, in nature conservation and in sustainable land management.
Bottom Coombe Quarry, Easton, Portland - cutting and clearing up Cotoneaster, clematis and bramble brash and burning up
Portland - Bottom Coombe Quarry, Easton
Today we shall be working with the EuCAN Dorset Midweek Volunteers, cutting and clearing up Cotoneaster, Clematis and bramble brash and burning up.
Read more >Brushcutter/Strimmer Training/Refresher course
Pollbridge Stables nr Bishops Caundle
This day course will lead to an NPORS ticket for you to use a petrol machine.
Read more >Habitat management at Lyme Regis for the Wood White butterfly
Lyme Regis - fields below Timber Hill
We shall be working with the NT today to clear the invading bramble scrub in the fields between the Spittles landslips and the Charmouth Road carpark to prevent the rich butterfly habitat being suffocated.
Read more >South Chard Gravel pits - EuCAN Somerset Volunteers
South Chard Gravel pits - nr Chard
We are back at this interesting worked out gravel pit today (and in a fortnight - Nov 3rd) - to carry out the routine scrubcutting on the open areas to prevent them closing in and to undertake some tree work to reduce the birch and willow trees that are shading the grassland areas.
Read more >Telegraph Hill, Hilfield: habitat enhancement for the Duke of Burgundy butterfly
Telegraph Hill below the Lyons Gate to Batcombe road
This is the second of the sites we will be working on in the second year of this exciting project funded through the Dorset AONB with a FIPL grant.
Read more >Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - a volunteer workday with BC Dorset and EuCAN
Monmouth Hill near Milton Abbas
Butterfly Conservation (Dorset branch) and EuCAN will be holding volunteer workparties this autumn and winter season, normally on the third Thursday of the month.
Read more >Opening up the grassland habitat in the Sydling valley for chalk downland butterflies
Lamperts Farm, Sydling St Nicholas
Today we will be clearing a band of bramble and thorn scrub which is threatening to suffocate the chalk downland at the foot of these slopes.
Read more >Scrub clearing at Corscombe - EuCAN Somerset volunteers
Linhay - above Corscombe
We will be continuing with the work to clear the bramble and thorn from a hillside west of Corscombe.
Read more >Black Hill Cerne Abbas - continuing the Duke Of Burgundy habitat enhancement work this autumn
Black Hill, Cerne Abbas
This is our second Duke of Burgundy site to work on for this phase of the project.
Read more >Clearing buddleia and other undesirables from the banks at Silklake Quarry Conservation site, Portland
Silklake Quarry Conservation site, Portland
We shall be working with the Dorset Countryside Volunteers today. Our priority is to remove as much as possible of the tall buddleia that is well-established on top of the bunds round the wildlife conservation area.
Read more >South Chard Gravel pits - EuCAN Somerset Volunteers
South Chard Gravel Pits, nr Chard
We are back at this interesting worked out gravel pit today to carry out the routine scrubcutting on the open areas to prevent them closing in and to undertake some tree work to reduce the birch and willow trees that are shading the grassland areas.
Read more >Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - a volunteer workday with BC Dorset and EuCAN
Monmouth Hill, Milton abbas
Butterfly Conservation (Dorset branch) and EuCAN will be holding volunteer workparties this autumn and winter season, normally on the third Thursday of the month.
Read more >Chainsaw refresher training course
Motcombe, nr Shaftesbury
This is a two day refresher training leading to a LANTRA certificate. one place still available.
Read more >Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - a volunteer workday with BC Dorset and EuCAN
Monmouth Hill near Milton Abbas
Butterfly Conservation (Dorset branch) and EuCAN will be holding volunteer workparties this autumn and winter season, normally on the third Thursday of the month. If you are available to help us, your company will be hugely appreciated!
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