Summary
Conservation Techniques
Algae Control Using Barley Straw Hedgelaying Styles
Conservation Volunteering - How & Why Litter - Organising a Cleanup
Finance
Grants And Funding  
Health and Safety
Health Protection Agency Tetanus
Lyme Disease Weil's Disease
Roundworms  
Non-native Species
Invassive Plants And Non-native Species  
Threats to Wildlife
Harlequin Ladybirds Invassive Plants And Non-native Species
Horse Chestnut Disease Large Scale Housing Developments
Other
Ragwort  

Algae Control Using Barley Straw

Website: www.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk/research/capm/pdf%20files/1%20Barley%20Straw.pdf

Conservation Volunteering - How & Why
BTCV Handbook

Website: handbooks.btcv.org.uk/handbooks/index/book/140

Grants And Funding

Website: www.green-space.org.uk/community/fund_search.php

Harlequin Ladybirds

Website: www.harlequin-survey.org

Health Protection Agency

Website: www.hpa.org.uk

Hedgelaying Styles

Website: www.hedgelaying.org.uk/styles.htm

Horse Chestnut Disease

Website: www.kastanjeziekte.wur.nl/uk/index_uk.htm

Also www.forestresearch.gov.uk/bleedingcanker

Invassive Plants And Non-native Species

Website: www.t-c-m-rd.co.uk/invasive-weeds

Himalayan balsam, Japanese knotweed, etc.

See also Non-Native Species Secretariat www.nonnativespecies.org and DAISIE (Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe) www.europe-aliens.org

Large Scale Housing Developments

Kennet Valley Park (Prudential): groups.yahoo.com/group/SaveKennetMeadows

Pincents Lane, Tilehurst: www.savecalcot.co.uk

Litter - Organising a Cleanup

Website: www.encams.org/publications

Lyme Disease

Website: www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/zoonoses/lyme_borreliosis/menu.htm

Also www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme

Ragwort

Website: www.ragwortfacts.com

Roundworms
Contracted from dogs and foxes

Website: www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/zoonoses/toxocarosis/default.htm

Tetanus

Website: www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/tetanus/menu.htm

Weil's Disease

Website: www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/zoonoses/leptospirosis/gen_info.htm

Last Updated 20 November 2008