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In these recessionary times, with our Local Authorities under severe financial constraints, yet still charged with the delivery of more environmentally sensitive open spaces, tales emanating from the Wyre Forest District Council’s Parks & Green Spaces team, of budgetary savings, coupled with increased productivity, led Neil Hancock to meet with Supervisor, Joshua Brady, to find out the secrets of their success
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wo years ago Joshua left his South African homeland and his environmental work in the Kruger National Park to start a new life for himself and family in the UK. He commented “I met my wife-to-be Louise in South Africa whilst working at Buffalo Hills nature reserve. She is a British citizen and had been working on a contract in Port Elizabeth with General Motors for three years. Two years after we met, we decided to tie the knot, then Louise fell pregnant and with that came her desire be near to her family. She returned to England for a six month period for the birth of our son and I joined her for three of those months before we all returned back to South Africa.
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Just over a year later Louise fell pregnant again, and again the desire to be close to her family came through strongly. We finally decided that Louise would return to the UK and I would follow as soon as possible. Louise had lived with me for a five year period in South Africa, so it was only right for me to do a three years in the UK, which has now been extended to five! I did apply for a number of Ranger posts closer to our home in Shifnal, Shropshire but, due to a perceived lack of UK
conservation knowledge, I was not given the opportunity.
Eventually I saw that Wyre Forest District Council were advertising a position within their Parks & Green Spaces department and it was, in fact, my project management skills that, in the end, got me the job.”
Joshua continued “as a department, we are charged with the task of delivering the best possible service we can within budget, and we set about looking at the ways in which we currently worked and how we might improve to reduce costs, whilst also keeping in mind our overall remit and any environmental impact. In all areas, we work closely with the Rangers department. We undertake a lot of tree works for them, removing species such as Crack Willow and re-planting specimen trees to encourage bio-diversity.” “One area we have
particularly focused on is our weed control programme and, following our own product research, we now carry out an increasing amount of work in both our nature reserves and parks with the Mankar pressure- less spraying system. This particular work impacts directly on bio-diversity, as the invasive plant species we control are naturally very monoculture and take over from a number of indigenous plants. Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera),
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