Trainee Countryside rangers are currently being recruited as part of the ‘Berry Head On the Edge’ project. Over the next 3 years there will be a total of 12 trainees, with the first cohort starting this April. The trainee rangers will work alongside the current team carrying out duties such as habitat management, wildlife and vegetation surveys, repairs to the Napoleonic forts, and working with volunteer groups. It is hoped that their work will not only be beneficial to the site, but will also give the trainees the vital ‘hands on’ experience that they need in order to start a career in heritage and nature conservation.
If you are interested in these placements and would like to know more please visit our website, www.countryside-trust.org.uk
Or contact Gemma Parsons at the Berry Head rangers office on 01803 882619.
Closing date- 19 February 2009
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The view from Berry Head National Nature Reserve.
This site gives regular updates from the Rangers at Berry Head on wildlife sightings, events, projects, ways to get involved and anything else that comes to mind.
Berry Head is a limestone peninsula rising 200’ (65m) from the sea, forming the southern arm of Tor Bay in South Devon. It is a 100-acre National Nature Reserve, holding nationally rare plant and animal species and is also a Country Park that forms the main recreational area for the nearby town and port of Brixham (population 16,000).
The site holds two well-preserved Napoleonic War-era Forts and important Second-World War heritage and lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on the South West Coast Path.
The rare plants that grow on its thin, dessicated limestone soils form a community that is not found anywhere else in the UK. A colony of Greater Horseshoe bats lives in caves in the limestone, a species that is protected by international statute because of its rarity and the steep decline in its numbers across the UK.
The colony of Guillemots breeding on the cliffs is the largest on the Channel coast and the most southerly in the UK. At the same time the Head is hugely popular with walkers, day-trippers, fishermen, rock-climbers, naturalists, historians and picnickers, making it one of Torbay’s top ten most visited attractions.
To find out more visit www.countryside-trust.org.uk
Berry Head is a limestone peninsula rising 200’ (65m) from the sea, forming the southern arm of Tor Bay in South Devon. It is a 100-acre National Nature Reserve, holding nationally rare plant and animal species and is also a Country Park that forms the main recreational area for the nearby town and port of Brixham (population 16,000).
The site holds two well-preserved Napoleonic War-era Forts and important Second-World War heritage and lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on the South West Coast Path.
The rare plants that grow on its thin, dessicated limestone soils form a community that is not found anywhere else in the UK. A colony of Greater Horseshoe bats lives in caves in the limestone, a species that is protected by international statute because of its rarity and the steep decline in its numbers across the UK.
The colony of Guillemots breeding on the cliffs is the largest on the Channel coast and the most southerly in the UK. At the same time the Head is hugely popular with walkers, day-trippers, fishermen, rock-climbers, naturalists, historians and picnickers, making it one of Torbay’s top ten most visited attractions.
To find out more visit www.countryside-trust.org.uk