Habitat Restoration
CONSERVING PRECIOUS BEAUTY
Much of Davaar’s land mass is rough/hill pasture and this plays a vital role in supporting biodiversity from micro-organisms to wild flowers and lichens to invertebrates to bird life as well as fixing atmospheric carbon and nitrogen into the soil.
Active management is required to achieve the right balance. We aim to deliver the desired benefits to the environment using low intensity grazing by native breeds allowing a greater variety of grass and flower species to compete. This in turn supports a greater variety of wildlife such as bees, butterflies and moths and the bird life they sustain.
This will involve:
- Introducing native Highland cattle for conservation grazing
- Limit grazing throughout the flowering season – mid April to August
- Grazing down over winter to prevent dominant species takeover and increase competition for spring
- Removing damaging invasive species such as Bracken
These measures will achieve good grassland management resulting in:
- more diversity of grass species
- more diversity of wildflowers
- increased support to insects and pollinators
- increased support to bird and mammal life
The UK has lost of 97% of its traditional wildflower meadows since the 1930s massively reducing the diversity of wildflower plants in many areas and having a knock-on detrimental effect on the pollinators that used to rely of them. We are aiming to restore Davaar’s meadowland and provide areas of both beautiful and supportive wildflower rich grassland again.
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