Towns and gardens
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
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Wildlife laws under threat: Habitats Regulations
With a second reading of the Retained EU Laws Bill expected soon, we're sharing a series of blogs about the laws and regulations designed to protect nature that are under threat. Today, Sue…
Rocky habitat
Rocky habitats are some of the most natural and untouched places in the UK. Often high up in the hills and hard to reach, they are havens for some of our rarest wildlife.
Wilder Diaries: Sand gardens and futureproofing against drought
As we face more frequent extremes of flooding and drought, we must turn our attention to ways in which we may need to change how we manage gardens and green spaces. Some of you have already been…
Garden warbler
A plain-looking warbler, the garden warbler is a summer visitor to the UK. It is a shy bird and is most likely to be heard, rather than seen, in woodland and scrub habitats.
Discover wildlife in your garden
Devon’s gardens are a great place to see wildlife up close. Discover the importance of gardens for wildlife and learn what to look out for in your garden
Garden bumblebee
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
Wildlife Garden Award
The Wildlife Garden Award invites you to add your garden to the patchwork of wild spaces across Devon! Apply today to receive your plaque.
Garden tiger moth
The garden tiger is an attractive, brown-and-white moth of sand dunes, woodland edges, meadows and hedgerows; it will also visit gardens. In decline, it is suffering from the 'tidying up…
Black garden ant
The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm…
Garden spider
Have you ever stopped to look at the shape of a spider web? Garden spiders spin a spiral shaped web, perfect for catching lots of juicy prey!
Wilder Diaries: The Habitat Group water vole reintroduction
We recently met with Sue Hadow from The Habitat Group in the South Hams, who have been running their exciting water vole reintroduction project, to find out more about their recent activities.