First hectare of a thousand. January 3-Jan-2018

3/1/2018

Cemex and the RSPB have been working in partnership to restore 1000 hectares of ex-quarry workss to prime, natural habitat. Giving themselves until 2020 to achieve this target, they actually managed it last year.

The first hectare was at part of the Eversley quarry. Basically, Moor Green Lakes and some of the other amenities around the area e.g. Horseshoe Lake.

Click this for a Cemex/RSPB video on youtube explaining the first to the 1000th hectare to be restored. It has shots from Fleet hill farm and Manor farm, which regulars to this blog will be familiar with.

Click this for a link to the RSPB website which explains the 1000 hectare initiative.

Click on this for a link to the Cemex website for their news on the 1000 hectare initiative.

Click this for information on Cemex being runner up in the MPA Nature and Quarry awards due to their work at Eversley.

Personally I feel that Cemex, RSPB, Moor Green Lakes Group and Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust have done an outstanding job of it all. It's a shame I only became aware of this 15 months ago. People I bump into as I traipse around the reserve are highly appreciative of the effort - most especially the bird watchers.

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A polite notice first: All photographs on this blog are owned by me and subject to copyright.

Also, note that I have special permission to be on the Eversley quarry site of Fleet Hill farm, Manor farm and the Hampshire part, Chandlers farm. They are not open areas for general access. Please keep to the public rights of way.

I was quite fascinated to see how Cemex would restore their gravel extractions workings to become a nature reserve, and so started this blog. There is an ulterior motive. It does mean that my partner and I get some well needed exercise as we stomp around the reserve every week. Following the progress of the restorations does mean the walk is not as tedious as it might otherwise become.

Don't worry about one of the archives being November 2025. You haven't entered a time warp! It's just that I've discovered a way to pin a post to the top of a blogger in Weebly; not straight forward apparently. I have to set the date far far into the future.

First hectare of a thousand. January 3-Jan-2018

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