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Welcome to the first newly designed issue of ‘Hare Today’. I hope all Trust members find this an attractive, entertaining and informative read.
Sophie Singleton
 During the spring of 2010, I experiencedthe wonder and fascination of handrearing three abandoned brown hareleverets. Watching these captivatingcreatures develop from tiny, vulnerablebabies to flourishing adolescents was anincredibly inspiring opportunity.The Hare Preservation Trust providedinvaluable advice during the hand rearingprocess, which resulted in the successfulrelease of one female leveret to hernatural countryside habitat.Following this experience, the brownhare became the subject of my universitydissertation as I investigated the impactof ‘love’ and ‘loss’ messages inenvironmental conservation.Trust founder, Rodney Hale, has sincegenerously provided me with theopportunity to resurrect ‘Hare Today’.
I hope you find it as enjoyable to read as it has been to design! 
Imae: Sohie SinletonImage: Sophie Singleton
Biofuel crop,
Miscanthus grass 
couldprovide farmers with an economicallyviable, hare friendly alternative totraditional hay meadows.A low maintenance species requiring onlytwice yearly harvesting, elephant grasscould provide a refuge for the recovery ofbrown hare populations.An ongoing study by the University ofHull aims to assess the impact ofmonoculture biofuel crops on harebehaviour. Radio collars will aid thetracking of hares on Yorkshire farmlandand generate a picture of theiragricultural landscape use, including theavoidance or selection of crop types. It ishoped the data collected will allow thepotential impact of widespread biofuelplanting upon hare populations to bepredicted.Heavy, lingering snow throughoutNovember and December of 2010hampered efforts to monitor mountainhare populations in upland Scotland.The severe weather conditions havealso been blamed for displacing manyhares from their usual territories to moresheltered locations. Numbers arecurrently estimated through a captureand release method, alongside dungsurveying, however success rates arestrongly influenced by the weather.Surveys of mountain hares form part ofa continuous conservation monitoringprogramme.You can directly help the Hare Preservation Trust in many ways. If you have seen a hare please consider completing our sightingform. Reporting a hare sighting can help us to build up knowledge of habitats preferred by hares and will improve our ability to offerland management advice in areas where they are scarce. Please visit our website for a recording form.The Hare Preservation Trust continues to seek sympathetic MP’s willing to adopt an Early Day Motion striving for the legal protectionof hares. If you know a wildlife friendly MP we would be delighted to hear from you. Please see page 2 for contact details.
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