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Iconic Oxfordshire flower recovers from devastating count | Berks Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust (www.bbowt.org.uk)

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The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) has held annual counts of snake’s-head fritillaries, Oxfordshire’s official county flower, at Iffley Meadows nature reserve since the early 1980s. The very first count recorded just 500 flowers, but careful management of the reserve has seen a peak of nearly 90,000 counted in 2015.

Numbers plummeted to a 30-year low in 2024 as prolonged flooding, heavy rain and high winds resulted in a devastating tally of 6,087 flowers.

Last week, dedicated volunteers once again joined apprehensive ecologists from BBOWT at Iffley Meadows, on the banks of the River Thames in Oxford, to meticulously count the wild flowers. Spirits lifted as it became clear that numbers were recovering, and the final tally was 29,522 flowers, a nearly fivefold increase on the previous year.

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