Dragonflies need your help. Will you work with us to protect their habitats?

We need to raise money to help us create and maintain habitat for Dragonflies and Damselflies at our Foxearth Meadows Nature Reserve. Dragonflies and damselflies are one of the most ancient groups of insects, thriving in wetland habitats. But in the last 50 years, their habitats have been greatly reduced due to a combination of climate change, pond drainage and house-building. Our reserve can provide an important home for these insects, but we need your help.    

Foxearth Meadows is now at a crucial stage of development, and vital site management is needed to provide a mixture of open water, shaded pools, reed beds and healthy plant life for these insects to survive and thrive. We urgently need to fund a full-time Reserve Manager to carry out conservation work, develop and maintain the reserve and manage a new team of conservation volunteers. And it’s not just dragonflies and damselflies that will benefit from this: other insects, plants and animals flourish in this environment, making it an ecosystem to be proud of and a benefit to the local community!   

Your donations will help to establish Foxearth Meadows as a key habitat for dragonflies and damsleflies.