Managing habitats for wildlife
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Stockton Cutting SSSI, Warwickshire in 2011.
This disused railway was once an important grassland site and supported several key butterfly species. Over a period of 30 years, the site reverted to thick hawthorn scrub.
Stockton Cutting SSSI, Warwickshire in 2011.
Extensive scrub clearance may look drastic but without such intervention, those key species holding on in the last small remnants of grassland would be lost..