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[Bayer Cropscience Biodiversity Centres ] Great Chishill Little Shelford [ Bayer CropScience Biodiversity Centres ] CONTENTS 1 Summary 3 2 Introduction and Objectives 4 3 Chishill 6 3.1 The Biodiversity Centre 6 3.2 Biodiversity Summary 7 Summary 3.3 Habitats 8 3.3.1 Hedgerows 8 3.3.2 Margins 10 3.3.3 Woodlands and Trees 12 Biodiversity – Action Plan (BAP) Species present on 3.3.4 Ponds 14 What does it mean? both sites; these have been identified 3.3.5 Ditches 16 through extensive monitoring. 3.3.6 Arable 17 Biological diversity, in short ‘Biodiversity’ Species present include Bullfinch, Turtle 3.3.7 Orchards 18 is defined as the ‘variety of life on Earth’ Dove, Skylark, Corn Bunting, a range of 3.4 Species 20 and encompasses all living beings, rare arable plants including Corn Marigold 3.4.1 Bullfinch 20 including humans, plants, animals, and Night Flowering Catchfly, Bluebells, 3.4.2 Yellowhammer 20 ecosystems and not just rare or Cowslips, a range of farmland butterflies endangered species. 3.4.3 Turtle Dove 20 including Brimstone and Gatekeeper. 3.4.4 Farmland Butterflies 21 The correct management regime is also Bayer CropScience have Biodiversity 3.4.5 Bumble Bees 21 in place to support a healthy population Centres at Great Chishill and Little of beneficial insects. 3.4.6 Rare Arable Plants 21 Shelford and both are managed with 4 Shelford 22 visible commitment to conservation and This document sets out to record 4.1 The Biodiversity Centre 22 the environment, whilst achieving their these habitats and species and give 4.2 Biodiversity Summary 23 primary role as sites for crop trials work. a more defined structure to future 4.3 Habitats 24 conservation planning on both sites. With the increasing environmental 4.3.1 Hedgerows 24 This approach will enable the Bayer challenges placed on farmers, Bayer 4.3.2 Margins, Tracks and Beetle Banks 26 CropScience Biodiversity Project to CropScience is always looking for achieve its full potential. 4.3.3 Woodlands, Spinneys and Trees 28 ways to successfully combine farming 4.3.4 The Pond 30 and biodiversity. Our Biodiversity What is a BAP 4.3.5 Arable Land 31 Both sites are Centres are a practical demonstration 4.4 Species 32 of that commitment. Species? 4.4.1 Skylark 32 managed with There are several key habitats 4.4.2 Corn Bunting 33 BAP stands for Biodiversity Action present on both sites. These include Plan. These species are rare or 4.4.3 Beneficial Insects 33 visible commitment hedgerows, ponds, grass margins, endangered now in the UK and 5 The Future 34 to conservation and trees, woodland, ditches and action plans have been put in place 6 Farm Maps 35 traditional orchards. All these habitats to highlight particular species’ nesting the environment. are actively managed for biodiversity. habits, food sources, etc. to try and There are several key Biodiversity encourage higher populations. [02] [03] Introduction & Objectives Sustainable agriculture communication that reflects what our customers, stakeholders and is a key objective for employees really are: our partners. Bayer CropScience. This document is based on a reporting Bayer CropScience are one of the partnership between FWAG and Bayer world’s leading crop science companies. CropScience and gives an overview of the With our expertise and experience conservation work and monitoring carried in providing high-quality innovative out at both Centres, as part of our solutions to the UK agricultural, garden Biodiversity Project. This includes maps and amenity markets, we are setting of environmental features, habitat and the standard in areas of product and species information and a summary of the environmental stewardship. monitoring information compiled to date. As an innovative and research-based The overall aim of this document is company, we are committed to to give a direction and framework for developing and marketing solutions future work on each site. Both Centres for the safeguarding of crops and cover some 20 hectares of land and providing our customers efficient and support a wide range of species, habitats tailor-made solutions and pioneering and crop trials. The differences in soil type, new product developments. layout, history and landscape mean that whilst a common methodology can be At Bayer CropScience, we are used to promote conservation and dedicated to the principles and biodiversity, each of the Centres are practice of sustainable development considered separately. Individual and are determined to promote the conservation plans have been drawn Our Centres are a practical health and wellbeing of people and up for each site and will be updated the environment to the best of our annually, summarising the work carried commitment to Sustainable Agriculture. ability. We are committed to open out and monitoring results obtained. [04] [05] 3.2 BIODIVERSITY SUMMARY KEY SPECIES MAMMAL Pipistrelle Bat – there may also be other bats present. Brown Hare – may use the hedge bottoms and grass margins. Chishill 3.1 THE BIODIVERSITY CENTRE BIRD Yellowhammer – benefit from extensive hedgerow and margin management. Bullfinch – benefit from extensive hedgerow and margin management and gain additional benefit from This Centre covers retention of the traditional orchard areas. Turtle Dove – benefit from extensive hedgerow some 20 hectares on a and margin management and would gain additional gently undulating clay benefit from the use of cultivated arable margins. Barn Owls – benefit from extensive margin plateau to the south management that should lead to increased field vole west of Cambridge, on populations. Song Thrush – benefit from extensive hedgerow and the Hertfordshire border. margin management and gain additional benefit from Whilst the surrounding wooded areas. agricultural landscape AMPHIBIAN Frogs, Toads and Newts – all these amphibians benefit from extensive management of ponds, ditches is very open, mature and field margins. hedgerows bound the INVERTEBRATE Bumble Bees – three main species of bumble bee are known to inhabit the Chishill Centre. All these Centre with trees, giving species benefit from the addition of pollen and nectar the site an enclosed feel. mixes and the continued extensive management of grass margins. Formerly an orchard producing both Butterflies – the many species of butterfly present on the site benefit from a range of measures recommended apples and plums, much of the farm including extensive margin management and the has been converted into combinable continued extensive management of hedgerows. crops for trial plots, whilst retaining a Dragonflies & Damselflies – benefit from the diverse range of habitats, including: recently extended ponds and extensive ditch management. KEY HABITATS Plum and apple orchards. PLANT Bluebells – these plants thrive in the hedge bottoms A number of small woodlands • Hedgerows and on the ditch banks adjacent to the pond field. and ponds. • Ponds Cowslips – the plants are present in many of the Trees and a pattern of old hedgerows. ditch banks and field margins around the site. Varied • Grass Margins management of these areas including annual mowing A network of grass margins. • Trees mean they continue to thrive. • Woodland Bee Orchids – these plants are known to be present These non-cropped areas are actively in margins on this site. Good margin management • Ditches managed to promote wildlife. mean any population can be encouraged. • Traditional Orchards Arable Plants – cultivated margins and continued • Arable Farmland monitoring should ensure these valuable populations survive. [06] [07] In general, ancient hedges such as Hedgerow Benefits these will contain a wider range of shrub species apart from common Many farmland birds use hedgerows Hawthorn. The hedgerows contain and their associated habitats as either Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Ash and Oak. nesting sites or feeding grounds, these In addition to the range of species include Yellowhammer, Bullfinch and within the hedgerows, many also Turtle Dove; have remnant woodland flora at their base; species such as Bluebells and Farmland Butterflies such as the Habitats Stitchwort are present at Chishill and Brimstone rely on Blackthorn as egg these species indicate that some of laying sites. these hedgerows are ancient features 3.3.1 HEDGEROWS of the landscape. Pipistrelle Bats feed on insects along hedge lines and also use Ivy covered A further indication of the age of the hedgerow trees as summer roosts. Hedgerows are some perimeter hedges is demonstrated by the presence of several significant Ash Brown Hares use hedge bottoms for of the most important pollards in the hedgerow on the south- shelter and as foraging areas. habitats found on any eastern boundary of the land. farm and Chishill is Barn Owls use well managed In addition to these old hedgerows, hedgerows as hunting corridors. no different; there is several boundaries have in the past, been planted with poplars as over 2km of hedgerow windbreaks, to protect the commercial present on the site. orchards that existed on the site. Well managed hedgerows These are being replaced with more Well-managed hedges provide traditional hedgerow species. provide habitat and food cover and shelter for birds, insects and smaller mammals, which benefit It is worth noting that all the source benefits for many from the structure of the hedge itself, hedgerows and field boundary its foliage, fruits and flowers and the features on the site are buffered different species. microclimate that it creates. Hedgerows from arable operations by a 6 metre can also act as corridors between are pre-enclosure and are of high grass strip. isolated habitats, allowing the regular historic value, in terms of landscape movement of mobile species or the and wildlife. The Biodiversity Centre at Chishill has more gradual migration and dispersal been in a Countryside Stewardship of others. In many cases hedges such as these Scheme since October 1997 and the are remnants of the original woodland aim was to see the perimeter hedge The hedgerows and field boundary cover, which were left as boundary laid and restored.
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