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		<title>Beckley Woods Work Parties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Butterfly Conservation&#8217;s Rother Woods Project is holding tree thinning and scrub cutting work parties at the entrance to Beckley Woods on Horseshoe Lane between Beckley and Udimore. Arrive from 9am on the last Sunday of the month &#8211; Nov 30th, Dec 28th, Jan 25th and Feb 25th. Contact Steve on 01580 879958. Volunteers must be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=175</link>
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		<title>Sea level rise by 2100 ‘below 2m’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[is just one interesting article from EUCC Coastal News&#8230;
Sea levels globally are very unlikely to rise by more than 2m (7ft) this century, scientists conclude. Major increases would have to be fuelled by a faster flow of glaciers on the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheets. 
But writing in the journal Science, a US team concludes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=171</link>
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		<title>Grey Partridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent reports indicate the following distribution in the RX area: covey of 9 on Rye Golf course at Camber, covey of 14 in Brede Valley near Udimore and 5 pairs breeding at Rye Harbour Farm.
Please let us know of more&#8230;
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		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Ecclesbourne Meadow Under Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ecclesbourne Meadow, part of the Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve, is under threat from a bramble and scrub invasion, which is set to strangle the wildflower-rich grassland.

To save the meadow Hastings Borough Council has joined forces with the Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve, Natural England and the High Weald Meadows Initiative.
Fund-raising by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=146</link>
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		<title>Marsh Mallow Moth update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An account of recent conservation effort has been published:
Parsons, M.S. &#38; Clancy, S.P. 2008. Conservation of the Marsh Mallow Moth Hydraecia osseola hucherardi Mabille (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Romney Marsh. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, 21: 61-74.
Summary
A brief history of the Marsh Mallow Moth Hydraecia osseola hucherardi Mabille in Britain is presented, along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Planting Marsh Mallow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 19th August, 120 Marsh Mallow pot grown plants were planted out at Castle Water to bulk up the previous plantings there. This was done on a regular Rye Harbour Nature Reserve volunteer workparty (click here for more info). The weather has since been wet, so we are expecting good survival and hope that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Crassula management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crassula helmsii is commonly called New Zealand Pigmyweed (or Australian Swampweed). It is an alien plant that threatens the wildlife of wetlands (see Plantlife&#8217;s account here) and last year we found it at Castle Water &#8211; see details here. This year it is still present and we sprayed it with Glyphosate in July (with Natural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve Restoration Project Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heathland restoration:
The Highland cattle have done a superb job in Warren Glen over summer reducing the dominance of bracken and producing pockets of acid grassland which over the years will grow bigger and eventually create a large bank of acid grassland with patches of heather.
The bracken and gorse seedlings have been cut in the braken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://projects.rxwildlife.org.uk/?p=3</link>
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