A pair of landscaping firms have volunteered their time to clean up some of the Island’s nature reserves in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricane Gonzalo.

Horsfield Landscape and Design Ltd and Sousa’s Landscape Management both stepped up to assist the Bermuda Audubon Society’s cleanup efforts at the Alfred Blackburn Smith Nature Reserve and the Somerset Long Bay Nature Reserve.

“Horsfield Landscaping has held a Day of Giving volunteering at our ABS reserve annually for the past few years. This year it was especially valuable to have their help as the trails were blocked with fallen trees and debris,” Karen Border, Audubon Society spokeswoman, said.

“The Audubon Society is a wholly volunteer organisation, so we do not have the equipment or manpower to tackle heavy jobs such as this on our own. We are enormously grateful to Jeff Sousa, Kevin Horsfield and their teams for stepping up to assist following Fay and Gonzalo, especially when we know how hard they have been working lately.”