Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2010 | Page 115
country life
Island Life - June/July 2010
Photo: Left: Wild flowers at Arreton, above: Pyramidal
Orchid by David Kilby
changes. We have control over land
management for wildlife. We manage
that we own, which means we can
livestock, we manage hedgerows, we
manage and restore it for the benefit of
have to deal with the regulatory bodies,
how we started and why we exist. In
biodiversity and then demonstrate this
we have to deal with rights of way and
1912 the Society for the Promotion of
to others.
health and safety – in short, we can
Nature Reserves was founded – leading
speak to landowners from a position of
eventually to the creation of the 46
mechanisms and ways in which we
shared experiences and that helps us
local Wildlife Trusts in subsequent
can influence