A meeting, set up by the Cumbria Wildlife Trust, and including representatives from Butterfly Conservation, the Brown Robin nature reserve and the Lime Kiln Wood Trust, was held on 10 May 2012 to discuss ways in which conservation of limestone woodlands in the Grange area could be coordinated. It was agreed that coordination of this sort would be very beneficial, not least because it would help to spread knowledge of practical conservation techniques for improving woodland biodiversity, and would underpin the development of a unified programme to monitor key indicator species such as woodland birds and butterflies etc. The first step will be the drafting of some specific aims which will then be used to approach as many woodland owners in the Grange area as possible. If you own woodland near Grange and are interested in managing it in a more wildlife-friendly way, please get in touch with us.