CGO Ecology News...
- DEKAMER turtle project looking for donors
- Early success for Devon smooth snake reintroduction
- Devon reptiles on the move
- Another new employee at CGO Ecology
- New home for Elizabethan garden slow-worms
- "Silent Summer - the State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland"
- New employee at CGO Ecology
- Current CGO Ecology projects
- Amphibian disease concerns continue
- Reptile refugia deployed on Spur Road
- Spring season begins for CGO Ecology
- Reptile exclusion fencing on the A338
- CGO Ecology winter programme
- A338 Spur Road works continue
- BHS & ARC Joint Scientific Meeting
- A338 mitigation under way
- September reptile training
- Herp charities merge
- Dorset herp group relaunched
- Bespoke training available
- Reptile survey training, 8th June
- Spur Road reptile survey
- CGO Ecology filling its 2009 calendar
- Survey volunteers needed!
News
A338 Spur Road works continue
Thursday, 19 November 2009 12:47 |
| Works are under way to clear scrub and thousands of trees on the A338 verges to make way for the roadworks in summer/autumn 2010. The tree clearance is essential prior to the roadworks and the topographic survey. The clearance has to take place over the winter to avoid bird-nesting season which begins in March. The road works will rebuild 10.5km of road and 21km of drainage ditches along the verges. After the trees have been felled, reptile-exclusion fencing will be installed along 7km of verge where there is reptile-rich neighbouring heathland. Then from March to June 2010, reptiles will be removed from the verges by CGO Ecology Ltd. Most will be transferred to adjacent land, but some will be moved to special 'receptor' sites elsewhere. Installation of the reptile fencing and the reptile capture itself should not involve any lane closures or traffic disruption; just cones on the verges. |
