General Election results: what now?
So the third election in five years is over. Here in Devon not a great deal has changed, but nationally it’s a new political landscape. The Conservatives have a clear majority and Brexit by the…
So the third election in five years is over. Here in Devon not a great deal has changed, but nationally it’s a new political landscape. The Conservatives have a clear majority and Brexit by the…
Devon Wildlife Trust has written to each of the county's Conservative Party Associations and its nine Conservative MPs calling on them to support demands that nature and the environment be at…
Environment, conservation, animal welfare and access charities challenge Government to set a State of Nature target to make the hopeful headlines come true.
Over 50 nature conservation groups have joined together to urge the Prime Minister to write the recovery of nature into the Environment Bill.
This is a dark time for our natural world. We’ve just experienced the worst drought in living memory and a summer pockmarked by wildfires, rivers swollen with sewage and beaches closed due to the…
Over 50 nature conservation groups have joined together to urge the Prime Minister to write the recovery of nature into the Environment Bill.
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…
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…
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…