BHS RAGWORT SURVEY on NOW please

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Cuffey

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Hopefully lots of people have already filled this in, especially those of you with serious problems locally.
So far not as bad where I live as it has been in previous years although it could be a little early to see flowering plants here.

If you just open BHS web site the survey comes up on your screen

https://www.bhs.org.uk/
 
What will happen with the survey results? we don't need a survey to know that a dangerous, notifiable weed [horses] and a food source for cinnabar butterflies is endemic in the UK, people who keep horses should do everything they can to make sure they are not available to horses.
 
I have C&Pd form below so please make more than 1 response and email each to welfare@bhs.org.uk

Info will be used to illustrate current enforcement (lack of) does not work and in some areas , despite legislation, the problem is getting worse.
Many of you say it is getting worse--please tell BHS where the bad places are--without figures they cannot press for better enforcement

In Lee Hacketts words:
'' Anything you could do to help us increase the number of responses to the survey would be hugely appreciated. I realise how busy you all are and am very reluctant to add to things but it hopefully won’t be too onerous and it is something we can proactively do in the battle against ragwort. Many thanks in advance for anything that you may be able to do to assist. ''



Q1) Type of land ragwort is growing on – please tick relevant box
Field □ Motorway □
Common land □ Set-aside/farmland □
Waste land □ Railway embankment □
Other (Please state)_____________________________
Q2) Location of field/land – please provide as many details as possible as to the location of the
field/land – e.g. a street name, name of yard or farm the field belongs to, area, county,
postcode, grid reference or directions to the nearest main road. If the ragwort is on motorway
verges, please provide details of nearest junction and whether north or southbound.
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Q3) Approximate size of field in acres/hectares/or metres, if known
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Q4) Number of horses, cattle and/or sheep being grazed on the land (or approx figure) if applicable
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Q5) Level of ragwort coverage on the land – please tick relevant box
A few plants isolated on the land □
Approximately quarter of the land □
Approximately half of the land □
Approximately three quarters of the land □
The majority of the land □
On a motorway verge/railway embankment □
If you would like to be entered into the draw to win one of two Mark Todd Blouson Jackets please
provide us with your name and address:
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For further questionnaire forms, information or advice contact 02476 840517 or email welfare@bhs.org.uk.
Please return this form to The British Horse Society, Ragwort 2011, Abbey Park, Stareton, Kenilworth,
Warwickshire CV8 2XZ before the end of July.
 
A lot of the land around where i live is over flowing with the darn stuff, and i have not yet to date ever seen the council doing anything about it.
But then saying that there are loads of fields with horses in locally that is smothered in the stuff and no attempt to clear it.
I think Education can only go so far, then actoin need to be take in proscuting these people who happily let it flourish
 
Key Results of 2010 Survey

77.3% involved land that animals were grazing on or near
35.8% of cases, ragwort covered at least half of the land
10000+ horses grazing on ragwort infested pasture
Approx 20,000 cattle or sheep grazing on ragwort infested pasture

Full list of counties/ Local Authority areas in order of number of ragwort reports.

1 Hampshire
2 Surrey
3 Cheshire
3 = Lincolnshire
3 = Cambridgeshire
6. Leicestershire
7. Nottinghamshire
8. North Yorkshire
8 = Hereford and Worcester
8 = Kent
11 Greater Manchester
12 Staffordshire
13 Hertfordshire
14 Bedfordshire
14=Oxfordshire
16=Sussex
16=Dorset
16=West Sussex
19=Gloucestershire
20=Shropshire
20=West Midlands
20=Northamptonshire
20=Warwickshire
20=Clwyd
25 Devon
26 Norfolk
27=Lancashire
27=West Yorkshire
29=Strathclyde
29=Essex
29=Berkshire
29=Somerset
33 Derbyshire
34=South Yorkshire
34=Wiltshire
36 East Sussex
37 Buckinghamshire
38 Avon
39 Dunfries and Galloway
40=County Durham
40=Cornwall
42 Tayside
43 Cumbria
44 Isle of Wight
45=Northumberland
45=Merseyside
45=Outer London
48=Humberside
48=Gwynedd
48=Dyfed
48=Gwent
52=Central Scotland
52=Fife
52=Lothian
52=Tyne and Wear
56=Highlands
56=Mid Glamorgan
58 West Glamorgan
59 Borders
60=Grampian
60=Inner London
62=Orkney
62=Islands
62=Down
62=Powys

No reports were received for areas not listed.
 
Done! There is a small paddock next to me (owned by a poultry farm) which is full of ragwort, totally overgrown and neglected. Last year we pulled it all ourselves. I have been to see them this year and asked very politely if they could deal with it as I didn't want to fall out with them by contacting Defra . The chap I spoke to said he would ask the boss to top the field, still not been done and its starting to flower. :mad:
 
I filled this in last year in the hope that something would be done about all the ragwort down the sides of the M27 near me and this year there is more :( It is a stones throw from the open forest with the New Forest ponies grazing so I really feel it should be dealt with before the seeds spread it further. Does the info from the survey get passed on to the relevant authorities?
 
Kent is covered in it. I could be on the survey for hours and still not fill in all the locations. What to do???
 
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