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The Fernhurst SocietyBiodiversity projects
The Society's 2001-2003 biodiversity projects embraced several schemes studying the local flora and fauna and land use within an area centred on Fernhurst and bounded by Kingsley Green, Blackdown hill, Elmers Marsh and Henley.
This was our contribution to the national Local Agenda 21 programme that derives from the international Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. We worked in the conjunction with the Sussex Downs Conservation Board, the West Sussex County Council, Chichester District Council and conservation groups within Sussex. Between 2001-2003, the Society organised a major project
studying local nature, wildlife and history. Funded by a grant from the
Local Heritage Initiative (LHI), which is a national grant scheme that
helps local groups to investigate, explain and care for their landscape,
traditions and culture, the results were presented to the village in October
2003 in the Fernhurst Wildlife Exhibition. More information on these LHI-funded projects
(Adobe pdf Data from our projects were entered onto a computer database linked to Ordnance Survey digital maps, and are shared with national and local records centres including the Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre. Meanwhile, listen to a sound recording of the woodland dawn chorus at 6 a.m. on a beautiful May morning near Fernhurst village: dawn chorus (486 kB, mp3 stereo) |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Local Heritage Initiative was developed by the Countryside Agency and was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Nationwide Building Society.
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