WCLC has recently updated the information on the environmental work undertaken over the last few years, along with explanations about the Countryside Stewardship agreement (CSA) with Natural England commenced in 2019.

The vast majority of the Charity’s work is devoted to improving the diversity of habitat on the Common. The aim here is to provide a mosaic of vegetation which allows all heathland features to flourish, including pioneer heath and bare ground which benefits rarer invertebrates, birds, reptiles and plants. In 2018 nightjars and nightingales returned to the Common. By 2019, there were at least five calling male nightjars.