Bluebells. Photo, Neil Aldridge
In a welcome step forward, the UK Government has announced proposals to ban bottom trawling in 41 offshore Marine Protected Areas - including 5 within Devon - pending a consultation. But in order…
• New evidence shows nature does not block growth
• New poll: Voters say Labour’s failing nature
• Pull part 3 of the Bill: nature recovery pretence is ‘licence to destroy’
Today The Wildlife Trusts have published a briefing, urging the Government to ‘fill in the blanks’ to avoid the Planning & Infrastructure Bill undermining vital nature protections.
Today the UK Government has paused all new applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme which promised, alongside other ambitious elements of England’s Environmental Land…
The Wildlife Trusts congratulate the UK Government’s decision to open the door for licenced reintroductions of beavers into the wild and its acknowledgment of the free-living populations in…
We are aware of reports of boar on Dartmoor National Park and will be working with the Dartmoor National Park Authority and others over the coming weeks to understand more about their presence.…
• The first trees have been planted by local volunteers at Devon Wildlife Trust’s Bowden Pillars site, near Totnes
• Local people help charity plant 7,000 native species trees
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• People find extraordinary ‘climate indicator’ species in UK waters
• First Devon sighting of spectacular Rainbow sea slug
• Devon Wildlife Trust volunteers clock over 700 hours of…
Devon Wildlife Trust’s Nextdoor Nature programme worked closely with five communities to take action for nature.
A pioneering conservation project has brought back pine martens to the South West of England for the first time in more than a century.*
