Fencing at Boynes Coppice and Meadows

Boynes Coppice and Meadows is a biodiversity rich site in a priority area, the Malvern Chase Living Landscape. The site consists of a small woodland adjacent to four meadows, one of which is rich in vascular plants including green-winged orchid, adder’s-tongue fern, dyer’s greenweed, pepper saxifrage and pale sedge. The site is also home to a wealth of insects, including small copper and common blue butterflies, meadow grasshoppers, speckled bush crickets and dark bush crickets.

Worcestershire Wildlife Trust manages the site using traditional techniques, including an annual hay cut, followed by aftermath grazing and the meadows are developing a rich flora and fauna. However, our management programme is being hampered by old and damaged fencing and the project involves the installation of new fencing that will allow our work to get back on track.