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idverde provides a wide range of green services, including grounds maintenance, landscape creation, and advice services, to both private and public sectors across the UK.
Elmfield Woods is an 8.8-hectare urban woodland and grassland mosaic in London Borough of Bromley under idverde’s conservation management. Our team is responsible for managing the access, infrastructure and conservation outcomes for biodiversity and ecology through the production and use of a tailored woodland and habitat management plan.
Our team has implemented a sustainable woodland management programme with the aim of diversifying woodland structures and promoting scrub areas and associated grassland with the inclusion of ecologically focused areas which provide and promote species richness as well as managing the grassland, which comprises approximately 25% for the benefit of biodiversity.
Our work to diversify woodland structure is created through a programme of works aimed at thinning and coppicing to diversify the age structure within the woodland. This has the effect of creating glades and rides which have opened up new ecological niches to be exploited. The ground’s flora is able to flourish which in turn benefits many woodland edge species, such as butterflies, moths and birds. Deadwood is being retained and a programme of ecological monitoring is in place.
Woodlands with a diverse age structure not only have a wider range of ecological niches to be exploited by a wider range of species but also are more resistant to disease outbreaks and storm damage. As an urban site, the woodland has important potential as a stepping stone within a wider corridor across the landscape facilitating the movement of aerial species.
Community engagement work is been carried out with a neighbouring college to help address litter issues and new access routes are being installed to prevent unnecessary damage to the woodland floor.
Experience the amazing butterfly footage from the site in the video below, shared by Rodney Compton.
