4718 x 3145 px | 39,9 x 26,6 cm | 15,7 x 10,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
10. April 2019
Ort:
Coates Common, West Sussex, UK
Weitere Informationen:
In the UK the field cricket has been lost from a major part of its historic range, due to changes in agricultural practises, lack of disturbance by livestock and increased rates of succession. By the 1980s it was confined to one site in West Sussex with less than 100 individuals and was expected to go extinct. In 1992, a programme of reintroductions to sites across Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire began, funded by English Nature’s Species Recovery Programme. In 2010 the RSPB contributed to this programme by translocating field crickets, under license from Natural England, to an area of restored heathland on their Farnham Heath reserve, thereby extending the occupied range. This was very successful with a population of over 300 individuals becoming established in just 6 years. In 2017-2020 this project is continuing with the National Lotttery funded Back from the Brink programme, by establishing a second colony at Farnham Heath, restoring heathland at RSPB’s Pulborough Brooks reserve, and establishing a new colony there, to increase the robustness of the local population.
