FPCR Team Dorking have been working with the Species Recovery Trust for a second time to help save one of the rarest sedge species, and indeed one of the rarest plant species in the UK, Starved Wood Sedge Carex depauperata. This species once existed as a single plant, found in Cheddar Gorge, although thanks to large tree uprooting caused by the Great Storm of 1987, a relic population was discovered in Surrey. This Surrey population has continued to grow thanks to the Species Recovery Trust monitoring, aided by our Team Dorking office, who’s efforts with scrub and tree clearance, as well as planting new individuals, will hopefully conserve the future of this species.
