Conservation
Our countryside team of staff and volunteers work tirelessly to keep the Downs special for everyone to enjoy for ever.
Today, Dunstable Downs is still open access land and we continue to provide amenity grassland areas, a dog-friendly visitor centre hub and host events, family activities and walks, so that people have many ways to enjoy a visit here.
Without intervention, the Downs would gradually turn into woodland, so the countryside team work hard to remove species such as bramble, blackthorn and elder. These woody species try to out-compete the delicate and rare flowers which are of vital importance to the hundreds of other species that live in chalk grassland.