Editing The Conservation Volunteers (section)

===The Conservation Corps===
In 1959 the (then) Council for Nature appointed Brigadier Armstrong to form the Conservation Corps, with the objective of involving young volunteers, over the age of 16, in practical conservation work.<ref name="newsci1959">{{cite news | title=Tidying up the Nature Reserves | date=26 February 1959 | pages=448–449 | newspaper=The New Scientist}}</ref> The corp's first project was at [[Box Hill, Surrey|Box Hill]], Surrey,<ref name="newsci1959" /> where 42 volunteers cleared dogwood to encourage the growth of [[juniper]] and distinctive [[Chalk Group|chalk]] [[downland]] [[flora (plants)|flora]].<ref name="third2009">{{cite web | url=http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/archive/881675/Bellamy-celebrates-50-years-volunteering-BTCV/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH | title=Bellamy celebrates 50 years of volunteering with BTCV | access-date=7 March 2011 | date=18 February 2009 | work=Third Sector}}</ref> One of the volunteers present was [[David Bellamy]], who went on to become a Vice President of BTCV.<ref name="whoweare"/><ref name="third2009" />

By 1964 the Conservation Corps had expanded its activities to include education and amenity work in the [[countryside]]. In 1966 it moved from a basement office at Queens Gate, [[Kensington]], to new premises at [[London Zoo]] in [[Regent's Park]]. In 1968 the first training course for volunteers was held. By 1969 membership had increased to 600, and volunteers completed around 6,000 workdays a year. The first ever international exchange visit to [[Czechoslovakia]] that year became the forerunner for the International Project Programme of today.