25 February 2008

STUCK for a Mother's Day gift?  Suffolk Wildlife Trust has something different to offer. A selection of unusual gifts is available from just £10. What’s more, they benefit the long term future of Suffolk’s plants and animals.
Choose from the following for a Mothering Sunday present which doesn’t cost the earth - it may even make it a better place!

If you want to help the Suffolk Community Barn Owl Project, why not adopt a box for £20? It makes the perfect gift. In addition to an initial certificate and barn owl box allocation, each year we will send you an e-newsletter with details of occupation and breeding success.

Watch out for a water vole for £12. This wildlife gift is linked to our work to create and restore river habitat for water vole and will help to protect and monitor their numbers throughout the county. You will receive a gift pack which includes a personalised certificate, a water vole photograph card and a water vole factsheet

*Sponsor a 100m2 square of new woodland and transform a bare field at Spouses Vale  into a home for the endangered dormouse (£15) You will receive a certificate with map showing your sponsored area of new woodland, a thankyou postcard, a dormouse photo card, information about woodland regeneration and dormice

*Give a handsome great crested newt a home (£10) As a sponsor you will receive a personalised certificate, a newt photo and great crested newt factsheet

*Sponsor one of our heathland sheep whose grazing helps conserve the Sandlings Heaths(£15) For this you will receive sheep photo and certificate, information about the flocks work, a twice yearly newsletter and invitations to events at Foxburrow Farm.

*Support our herd of Konik ponies in their work to maintain Suffolk’s spectacular fens and marshes (£20) For this you will receive a certificate, pony photo, information about the ponies and their work and a twice yearly newsletter

*Give a whole year of days out to our nature reserves with gift membership (from £30) – our standard membership package plus a copy of our full colour reserves handbook Watching Wildlife in Suffolk.

*Give a living bunch of flowers which will bloom year after year by supporting our ancient wildflower meadow conservation work. A good way to ensure that drifts of orchids will once again be a popular sight in Suffolk (£30)

To buy a wildlife gift or for further information please visit our website www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org or phone 01473 890089
For more press information please contact Kerry Stranix on 01473 890089

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