Grazing rights
Devon Wildlife Trust’s Matt Boydell explores the vital role grazing animals play in managing the health of our nature reserves. Matt has been Devon Wildlife Trust’s Land Manager for the past 19…
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Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
Enormous flocks of geese, ducks and swans swirl down from wide skies to drop onto the flat, open expanses of flooded grazing marshes in winter. In spring, lapwing tumble overhead and the soft,…
Cow collars point conservation grazing in the right direction
An innovative project which uses digital collars and virtual fencing to direct the movements of cows is now being used in North Devon.
Grayling
The grayling is one of our largest brown butterflies and a master of disguise - its cryptic colouring helps to camouflage it against bare earth and stones in its coastal habitats and on inland…
Path Accessibility Rating
Explore our newly developed path accessibility rating guide, designed to inform you about the ease or difficulty of navigating a particular path or trail within our nature reserves. The aim is to provide a clear indication of the terrain's challenge level, allowing visitors to choose routes that match their abilities and preferences.
Wilder Diaries: The Deer Wood Trust is growing trees and community
Hidden at the far end of a quiet woodland in Devon lies the Learning Shelter—a circular, hand-built structure designed to bring people together in nature while protecting the forest that surrounds…
You beauty! First sighting in Devon of amazing sea creature
A young nature-enthusiast and her father have made a spectacularly colourful discovering while searching rockpools in South Devon.
Orange-clubbed sea slug
A small colourful sea slug that can be found grazing on sea mats on the rocky shore and beyond the low water mark.
Hairy dragonfly
The UK's smallest hawker, the hairy dragonfly is mostly black in colour, but has a distinctively hairy thorax. It can be found in grazing marshes and flooded gravel pits, and along canals…
A message from our Chair of Trustees
As I write this blog I am lucky enough to be outside in my garden on a warm summer day. There is life burgeoning all around me - bees buzzing, birds singing and a wasp grazing my picnic table.
Land caddis
The land caddis is the only caddisfly in the UK to spend its entire time on land, with no stage in water. Look in oak leaf litter over winter to see the grainy cases of the larvae, in which they…
Wembury Marine Centre
Wembury Marine Centre celebrates and promotes the unique natural beauty of this amazing South Devon coastline.