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Investec Bank staff in Jersey have been helping create a wildlife corridor for species of small animals, including birds, mammals and reptiles in one of the Island’s most important natural habitats, as part of a three year partnership with Jersey Trees for Life. Staff from the bank are planting and maintaining hedgerows in an area of land close to St Ouen’s Pond.
The first two phases of the project are now complete. The objective is to create a safe habitat for small birds, mammals and amphibians, providing them with an element of protection from predators and also a feeding ground to help maintain their species. Small songbirds in particular are vulnerable from predators such as sparrow hawks, merlin and hobby. Marsh harriers have also returned to the area in large numbers following a decline during the 1970s.
The hedgerow project will create a wildlife “corridor” that will enable small creatures such as shrews, bank voles, wood mice, green lizards, slow worms and toads to hide from these predators. The small song birds flock to the area in winter to feed on the conservation crops that have been planted by farmers to encourage wildlife in the area, as part of the Birds on the Edge campaign to restore and conserve Jersey’s coastal areas and encourage the return of bird species no longer seen in the Island.
14 members of Investec staff spend two working days in every year of the three year programme working on the land alongside skilled land management teams from Jersey Trees for Life.
