Torridge River Restoration Project
The Torridge River Restoration Project aims to restore water quality and ecological health, through farm advice, capital works, community action and training.
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Torridge River Restoration Project Success
As the Torridge River Restoration Project comes to a close team leader Matt Turley reflects on the incredible achievements of the project, gives thanks to everyone involved and looks forward to…
Torridge Headwaters
Find out how this project provides advice & support to landowners around the Torridge Headwaters, improving the natural environment across their land holdings.
River lamprey
The river lamprey is a primitive, jawless fish, with a round, sucker-mouth which it uses to attach to other fish to feed from them. Adults live in the sea and return to freshwater to spawn.
Wilder Future: a vole's view
Ratty. Sensible, dependable, loyal, comfortable in his own skin, writes Harry Barton, Devon Wildlife Trust's CEO. He is the character who gives the river in Wind in the Willows its sense of…
Discover wildlife on the river
Learn about Devon’s rivers and the wildlife that lives in and around them. Discover which of our nature reserves provide some of the best river views in Devon.
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…
Celebrating the River Plym!
Everyone is welcome to join a unique public celebration of the River Plym, its wildlife and the communities who live along its length.
The River Plym Project
The River Plym flows from Dartmoor, to Plymouth, and into the sea. By connecting with the people who live and work alongside the Plym, this project looked to understand how local communities currently engage with the River Plym.
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…
Wilder Future: a mole's view
It’s a crisp, early spring morning of watery sun and rippling bird song. The April greens are at their sharpest, the leaves of every plant impossibly lush. The flowers pushing themselves up among…