Germany Trip

Volunteers from the Kentish Stour Countryside Project have travelled to Germany to participate in a nature conservation workshop with young people from the Bad Munstereifel region and Fougere in France. Craig Edwards, 23, and Kimberley Clark, 25 were given the opportunity to visit local wildlife areas and understand how they were managed. The similarities and differences between nature conservation sites in the three regions were discussed by the young people in a workshop before presenting their findings to the Mayors of Ashford, Fougere and Bad Munstereifel.

The discussions highlighted the diverse habitats that exist in Ashford, Bad Munstereifel and Fougere and demonstrated the high value of protection that each town places on these areas, as well as well as the social, economic and environmental benefits that come from having such areas.

Craig Edwards, a Voluntary Conservation Officer with the Kentish Stour Countryside Project said " This workshop highlighted the diverse and wonderful landscape in which all of the people in Ashford live and work from the ancient woodland of King’s Wood to the riverside Ashford Green corridor. It showed us potentially exciting methods of countryside management, which if implemented can only help to improve them for wildlife and local people."