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Education resources

  • Education services
    Student and teacher resources and our residential environmental education centre
  • Professional training courses
    Access, countryside management, interpretation and business skills courses as well as tailor-made packages
  • Conference Centre
    Set in the heart of the Peak District, fully-equipped rooms and home-made food

Habitat Creation and Restoration

14 – 16 March 2011

Course Director: Peter Phillipson

Learn proven techniques from leading practioners in order to achieve ecologically sound and successful habitat creation and restoration schemes – for grasslands, heathlands and woodlands.

Learn to:

  • Create grassland, heathland and woodland by a variety of techniques.
  • Prepare a site and consider all the important issues when planning a new creation scheme.
  • Assess the benefits and drawbacks of using seeds, pot plants, plugs and cuttings.
  • Get the best out of contractors working on habitat creation schemes.
  • Solve common problems with habitat creation and restoration projects and their ongoing maintenance.

Benefits for your role

You will feel more confident to decide on the most appropriate habitats for a given site, how best to create them and look after them, so that they will be a real and lasting benefit for wildlife.

Tuition Fee: Book by 14 January £421 (Standard £495) plus two nights Dinner, B& B £116

“I feel thoroughly empowered to champion a new way in my organisation!” Giles Strother Buckinghamshire Reserves Officer, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxon Wildlife Trust

Examples of previous participant organisations:

  • Surrey County Council
  • Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxon Wildlife Trust
  • Dartmoor National Park Authority
  • Warwickshire County Council

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More Information

Please contact us if you have any queries about our courses, or for an informal chat about how we can help you with your training and development needs.

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Email: training.losehill@peakdistrict.gov.uk