Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Events from a range of biodiversity and environmental organisations are listed below. Scroll through the calendar and find something to attend. You can view by day, week month or year. Pull up the month and click the calendar to activate it. Different organisations areRead More
Leave a comment We are a group of volunteers working with local communities to explore, enrich and share our enthusiasm for the biodiversity of Sid Valley. We do this by: Helping people to understand and celebrate the rich diversity of wildlife in the valley. Encouraging people toRead More
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Dr Emma S Pilgrim “Hope is a social gift,”Doug Abrams, The Book of Hope “We are going through dark times… armed conflict … Racial & religious discrimination, hate crimes… A political swing to the far right.. The gap between the haves and have-nots isRead More
Leave a comment Regenerative Farming Is A Method Of Agriculture That Prioritises Rebuilding Soil Health & Restoring Biodiversity Over Merely Maintaining Current Environmental Levels. Gardens Can Replicate The Principles. In this infographic I highlight how this system differs from organic or conventional farming by focusing on carbon sequestration and minimal soil disturbanceRead More
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Not often seen in Devon, we have deadly nightshade growing in Sidmouth, probably an escapee from one of the older gardens. In nature it is a plant of woodland edges, but it has been cultivated for many centuries as a medicinal herb. Small dosesRead More
Leave a comment While most adult UK butterflies die off in the autumn, the next generation surviving the winter as eggs, caterpillars, or chrysalises, five common species overwinter as hibernating adults: brimstone (which we wrote about with their antifreeze body fluid last year), comma, small tortoiseshell, redRead More
Leave a comment Singapore Is Reinventing Its Hyper-Urban Landscape By Transitioning From A Purely Ornamental Green City Into A Productive Biodiverse Edible Food Forest. Innovative projects feature permaculture systems on high-rise rooftops and building facades, where complex engineering allows for vertical layers of trees, shrubs, and herbs. By moving awayRead More
Leave a comment Insects are amazing in their diversity and range, there are insects found in almost every habitat that supports life: they live in the soil, in streams and ponds, on plants, high in the mountains, there are even insects that live in the Antarctic. TheRead More
Leave a comment People are alarmed by them, which is not surprising when what looks like a giant wasp is buzzing around trying to escape through the window, but our native hornets would rather get away from humans and are valuable part of our biodiversity. The largestRead More
Leave a comment For Derek Gow, “rewilding” is not an abstract environmental theory—it is a hands-on, often confrontational process of restoring ecological function to landscapes that have been “trashed” by industrial farming. his approach operates on several interconnected principles. Of course the term rewilding itself is anRead More
Leave a comment Darters, skimmers, chasers, golden-ringed and emperors, with their stunning colours and amazingly agile flight, dragonflies are probably one of the most thrilling groups of insects, and Devon is one of the best counties in which to see them. Fossil records show that insectsRead More
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