MWH get stuck in to their Mersey Basin Week

Here's an article from Natural England's Sarah Warrener, about MWH volunteers helping out at Wybunbury Moss during MWH Mersey Basin Week:

"Fourteen managers from MWH, an international company connected to the water industry with offices throughout Britain, volunteered at Wybunbury Moss National Nature Reserve (NNR) as part of MWH Mersey Basin Week.

They cut down small trees and scrub that has invaded a flower-rich meadow purchased by Natural England last year. The meadow forms part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest at Wybunbury Moss which was, owing to years of neglect by its previous owner, in poor condition.  The work carried out is a vital contribution towards improving the condition of the meadow and enabling the plant community present there to survive.

The MWH managers, staff from the Mersey Basin Campaign and their Natural England staff supervisors worked hard and have cleared about a third of the scrub on the meadow.

Sarah Warrener,Natural England's site manager at Wybunbury Moss, explained that there are several different habitats at Wybunbury Moss NNR. If the trees and scrub remain untouched the bog, fen and meadow plants would be lost and the site would become a woodland.  This would also have a negative affect on the rare and unusual insects and other invertebrates that currently live on the site, for example the rare beetle Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus, that is found only at Wybunbury Moss and one other site in Britain."

 

Thanks to Sarah, Hannah and Tony from Natural England for hosting the day and to Andrew Cowell, Kath Hart and the rest of the MWH team for all their effort and support