2 Editorial
Guy Freeman
3 The hairy mallow at Cleeve Hill: protecting a species at the edge of its range
Jeanne Webb
9 Five years of the Natural England Field Unit
Josie Allen, Pete Boardman, Jonathan Larwood, Andy McLay, Esther Pawley, Janet Whitman and Andrew Windrum
16 A new wildlife corridor for the South Wales coalfield: repurposing Wales’s opencast coal-lands
Martin Haigh, Pat Woodruffe and Margaret D’Aucourt
24 Lessons from grassland management: Keyworth LNR and the burial ground meadow
Neil Pinder
30 The conservation potential of the national rail network
Neil Strong
35 REVIEW: Author’s Update
Wildflower seed harvesting: what are the options?
John Bacon
36 Briefing
40 On the ground