Have your say on our Reserves and Sites Management Strategy 2025 - 2030

Have your say on our Reserves and Sites Management Strategy 2025 - 2030

The Alderney Wildlife Trust is in the process of updating its current management plans and creating the new Alderney Wildlife Trust Reserves and Sites Management Strategy 2025-2030. We are looking for feedback on our current management, events and workshops, site features/facilities, and our overall aims for the next 5 years to input into the new strategy.

The final deadline for responses is the 22nd April 2024.

Before we begin to draft the new Reserves and Sites Strategy, we are looking for feedback on what we currently do, as well as collecting insights into how the sites are used. Feedback received will be used to inform the writing of the new strategy which will run from 2025 until 2030. It will include 4 main sites:

Longis Nature Reserve

Vau du Saou Nature Reserve

Alderney Community Woodland

Bonne Terre Valley

We also undertake management in many other areas of the island, for example to maintain footpaths or control invasive species, and these elements of our work will also be covered by this strategy.

AWT Reserves and Sites Management Strategy information

View of Longis Reserve in Autumn from Mannez Garenne

Rowie Burcham

Alderney Wildlife Trust

Camille Francois

What we are looking for feedback on

In order to conserve habitats of value and make nature more accessible to the community, we carry out these main tasks:

Footpath cutting

Tree and woodland management

Invasive species control

Site features and facilities maintenance (e.g. signs, benches, bird hides)

Bracken and Bramble control

Cattle grazing

Reedbed Management

Beach Cleans/Litter picks

Ragwort Control

Tree Planting

We also have a range of events and workshops that take place across the sites, aimed at raising awareness of, and increasing people's connection to the natural environment of Alderney.

Through contributing to our survey, your feedback will help us to put together our plan for the next 5 years.

Complete the survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YZCSSP8)

Aims of the new strategy

These aims are the overarching goals we hope to achieve in the next 5 years, through practical conservation, community engagement and ecological research:

Timeline

This is the process that will be followed to create the strategy. After feedback from this stage is received, it will be reviewed, and elements will be used in the creation of the draft Reserves and Sites Strategy. This document will then be released for a period of 6 weeks for further feedback. The final document will then be completed, taking into account all feedback from the process, and will be published at the end of October 2024, subject to staff time and resources.