Increase winter food sources for birds |
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Hedgerows are protected and enhanced |
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Hedgerows are not trimmed during the bird nesting season |
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Allow saplings to grow into hedgerow trees at intervals (e.g. 4 trees randomly spaced over 200 m) where this fits in with the local landscape character |
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Hedges should have a mixture of heights and widths |
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Hedges should be maintained to a height which is customary to the local landscape (but no less than 1.5 m) |
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Do not trim hedges more than once every two or three years |
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Avoid cutting all hedges on a farm in the same year |
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Remove hedgerows |
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Hedgerows are not removed (without permission) |
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Habitats are not damaged by cultivation |
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Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment |
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Hedgerows are trimmed more often than every two or three years |
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Increase seed food sources for birds on arable farms |
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Provide foraging sites for seed-eating birds |
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Create 6m uncropped cultivated margins on arable land |
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Protect ancient trees in arable fields |
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Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees |
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Undersow crops |
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Sow 6m wide blocks or strips with a combination of small-seed bearing crops (e.g. cereal, kale, quinoa, linseed, millet, mustard, fodder radish, borage) |
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Create grassy habitat in corners of arable fields |
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Over-wintered stubbles |
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Increase seed food sources for birds on grassland farms |
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Take field corners out of management in grassland fields |
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Protect ancient trees in intensively-managed grass fields |
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Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not carry out supplementary feeding of stock under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Maintain (or increase) the area of unimproved grassland on farms |
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Wet ditches are protected and maintained |
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Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment |
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Do not cut ditch banks more than once every two or three years |
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Only use mechanical means (do not use chemicals) to clean your ditches or trim your bank |
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Ditches are not moved or re-profiled |
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Ditches are not cleared during the bird nesting season |
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Woodlands are protected and maintained |
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Livestock are excluded from woodland |
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Do not supplementary feed or locate water troughs and mineral licks in such a way as to cause poaching on woodland |
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Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment |
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Moorland is protected and maintained |
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Protect ancient trees in arable fields |
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Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees |
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Protect ancient trees in intensively-managed grass fields |
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Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not carry out supplementary feeding of stock under the canopy of in-field trees |