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Once reduced to just a handful of plants across three sites, Kentish milkwort is thriving following a seven-fold population increase thanks to years of conservation work.
Kent Wildlife Trust, alongside other regional Wildlife Trusts and The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, as part of the Save Our Chalk Streams Movement, have issued an urgent open letter to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Steve Reed.
Combined Furnace Farm and Hoathly Farm site in the High Weald owned by Kent Wildlife Trust will be known as Ironhurst Valley Nature Reserve - a near-continuous wildlife corridor stretching across the Kent–Sussex border.
Kent Wildlife Trust alongside other charities Woodland Trust, CPRE Kent and local campaign group Friends of Oaken Wood, is calling on residents to take part in the Kent Mineral Sites Plan Regulation 19 consultation -warning that proposals within the plan to quarry within Oaken Wood would wipe out at least 41 hectares of irreplaceable ancient woodland near Maidstone.
