Devon Wildlife Trust runs over 100 events each year, including walks and talks, open days and a festival. Find out more here.
Several visits from otters to #CricklepitMill in recent days. Hope I catch a glimpse. Any other recent otter spots? http://t.co/W4PfjEho7o
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Interesting meeting with #ExeterCityCouncil re plans for building a nesting tower for swifts. Should be good.
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Added: 17th May 2013
Concern is growing that PIB - the substance which has been responsible for more than 4,000 seabird deaths in the South West in recent weeks - may now be spreading to the Channel Islands. Alderney Wildlife Trust have been receiving reports of guillemots and razorbills covered in a waxy substance, unable...
Added: 13th May 2013
The number of seabirds recorded washed up on beaches in two incidents along the English Channel, covered in polyisobutene (PIB), has passed 4,000. Now, leading wildlife conservation and animal welfare charities and the UK Chamber of Shipping, supported by the wider industry body MaritimeUK, have come together as a single...
Added: 9th May 2013
Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) is celebrating the birth of a new staff member – one with four legs. Early on the morning of Monday 6 May one of DWT’s herd of six pedigree Exmoor ponies gave birth to a colt (male) foal at the charity’s Meeth Quarry nature reserve, near Hatherleigh....
Added: 3rd May 2013
Devon Wildlife Trust is running a free event this month giving people a guided exploration of its new Dartmoor nature reserve. The family-friendly discovery day is being held at the charity’s Emsworthy nature reserve, a secluded, wildlife-rich site just a mile away from popular Hay Tor. The free event takes place...
Added: 2nd May 2013
The Plym Valley Connections Project is a partnership of local authorities, conservation organisations (including Devon Wildlife Trust) and land owners that have come together to coordinate enhancements to the Plym Valley. The key ambitions of the project are to protect the rich built and natural heritage of the valley, enhance...
Added: 2nd May 2013
Latest figures reveal at least 2900 birds affected as result of polyisobutene pollution in the English Channel • Two incidents in February and April leave at least 2400 birds dead on south west beaches and over 500 taken into care [Note 1] • Death toll exceeds the number of birds affected following...
Added: 30th April 2013
An estimated 11,000 people attended Devon Wildlife Trust's annual Wildlife Festival in Plymouth on Saturday 27 April. The event took place under blue skies and proved a real hit with visitors to the city's Armada Way. Owls, mini-beasts, face painting, seashore craft making, Charles Darwin and a hoola-hooping badger were all...
Added: 24th April 2013
The Wildlife Trusts have joined forces with RSPB and other conservation groups to call on concerted international action to stop the dumping of Polyisobutene (PIB) at sea. PIB has been identified as the chemical which was at the centre of more than 2,000 recent seabird deaths in...
Added: 19th April 2013
• Scale of destruction “difficult to comprehend” • Public calling wildlife charities “in droves” • Call for people to make their voices heard A week after the first repots of birds covered in a sticky glue like substance being washed up on southwest beaches, wildlife...
Added: 19th April 2013
Devon Wildlife Trust is asking wildlife-lovers on the south coast to check their local beaches this weekend for washed up seabirds affected by the recent pollution incident. Any detail people can provide on what they see is evidence the Trust can use in trying to ensure a similar event doesn't happen again. No training is required...
Added: 15th April 2013
The number of dead and distressed seabirds found on the south coast increased dramatically over the weekend. Hundreds of birds, mostly guillemots, but also a smaller number of razorbills and puffins, were washed up on beaches in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. After five days of reports of birds being found covered...
Added: 11th April 2013
A local leading charity is planning to brighten up 12 of the city’s public spaces by creating a series of beautiful urban wildflower meadows. Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) is beginning work this month to add colour to Exeter’s city streets. ‘Plant Your Park’ is part of the ongoing Exeter Wild City...
Added: 11th April 2013
A local charity is promising a wildlife invasion of Plymouth City Centre. Devon Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) annual Wildlife Festival is to take place in Plymouth on Saturday 27 April between 10am and 4pm and the organisers are asking people to come along and enjoy a really wild day out! ...
Added: 27th March 2013
The ever-popular Wembury Marine Centre, near Plymouth is opening its doors again for the start of another busy season of marine education, fun and activities. The Centre has taken its normal winter-break over the past months but is open to visitors from Friday 29 March. The new season begins with a series of rockpool rambles, providing visitors...
Added: 27th March 2013
This summer a leading Devon charity is offering local children the chance to become the next Chris Packham or Kate Humble. Devon Wildlife Trust is running two weeks of wildlife discovery days where kids will learn the skills to that will help them become top nature sleuths. Bookings are being taken for ‘Discovery Days’ which take...
Added: 25th March 2013
Western Power Distribution (WPD) has teamed up with a leading local charity to help the county’s bees. The utilities company has funded the Devon Wildlife Trust to work with local school children helping them to understand the wonderful world of bees and the important roles the insects play in all our...
Added: 25th March 2013
Northern Devon Nature Improvement Area marks first anniversary Representatives from a major conservation project in Devon are attending a special event in Westminster today (26th March) to mark the first anniversary of England’s Nature Improvement Area (NIA) programme. The Northern Devon Nature Improvement Area covers 72,000 hectares in the river Torridge Catchment. It is one of 12...
Added: 21st March 2013
Devon Wildlife Trust was delighted to receive the recent news that Tideford Organics were to become a DWT corporate supporter. Totnes-based, Tideford Organics is putting its support behind DWT's ‘Get Devon Buzzing’ bumblebee campaign in 2013. The company is donating 10p from every sale of their 600g packs of pea and...
Added: 31st January 2013
What leaves frog spawn six foot up a tree? There is a rational answer, and it doesn’t involve a new breed of super-frog! Staff at Devon Wildlife Trust’s Working Wetlands project recently made a surprise discovery when working on land near Roadford Lake, in north Devon. They were quickly...
Added: 29th January 2013
A vast wildlife haven is to be created at the former Meeth Quarry, a 150 hectare site recently purchased by the Devon Wildlife Trust thanks to funding from Viridor Credits Environmental Company and generous individual donors. The Trust is now set to implement a programme of improvements for wildlife and...