Woodland
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
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Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
The woodland drummers
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Citizen Science: Woodland Wildlife Survey
Get involved and help monitor our woodlands by setting up a camera trap on your land or identify wildlife online.
How to make a woodland edge garden for wildlife
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Conservation charities win support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for woodland restoration and bringing back a lost member of our woodland communities
A partnership of leading conservation organisations has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £1.2million which will allow it to boost the recovery of the South West’s woodlands…
Supporting wilder woodlands - thank you
Thank you for making a donation to help our precious woodlands. Your donation today will make a difference and help us to ensure Devon’s woodlands can thrive once again. Thank you.
Wilder Diaries: Pinhoe View Hospital
Pinhoe View Hospital in Exeter provides care across two wards for people who have enduring mental health problems. Each ward at the hospital has access to its own garden. Through Nextdoor Nature…
Woodlark
The secretive woodlark can be hard to spot. It nests on the ground on our southern heathlands and uses scattered trees and woodland edges for lookout posts.
Wilder Diaries: The Devon woodland that now belongs to the community and its wildlife
In the village of Shillingford St George, just south of Exeter, a remarkable story unfolded that shows how community action can protect nature, bring people together, and leave a legacy for…
Wilder Future: a badger's view
Badger. Strong defiant, paternal, the only animal that the weasels and stoats won’t dare to cross. It is badger who the other animals turn to when things go wrong, the reluctant leader who steps…
Wilder Future: a toad's view
It’s always intrigued me that Kenneth Grahame chose Toad as his most impulsive, charismatic and rumbustious character. An adrenaline junky, desperate to be loved and the antithesis of Ratty’s…