The verges along Harby Lane have been included in the County Council’s Wildflower Verge Project and are now being managed by the Parish Council, with support from local residents, to help improve local wildlife habitat and to raise awareness about the importance of biodiversity.
Leicestershire County Council is working with many Parish Councils on the project and the Leicestershire wildlife charity NatureSpot is supporting this by carrying out an ecological survey of each new verge, meeting parish council representatives and local residents, and by providing a report of the survey findings together with management recommendations.
NatureSpot is also promoting every verge as a featured Wild Place on its award-winning website, which describes the project, lists all the species recorded during the survey, together with a selection of images. NatureSpot also invites local residents to contribute their own records of wildlife sightings on the verge which will then also appear on the feature page
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