Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
The Sidmouth and District Royal Naval Old Comrades Association has joined with Sidmouth Arboretum to celebrate Trafalgar Day and to plant the town’s first tree for the Queen’s Green Canopy Project. The local Old Comrades met the Arboretum team and representatives of the TownRead More
Leave a comment Devon Bat Group (devonbatgroup.org) was formed in 1984 by a group of people concerned about the decline of British bats and especially keen to look after the interests of those in Devon. Thirty seven years later, we have just under two hundred members fromRead More
Leave a comment The warnings from nature come thick and fast. The storm that brought down trees in the Byes two weeks ago, flooding, heatwaves, droughts and forest fires, these are all abnormal conditions. Global warming is continuing to destroy large parts of our living world. COPRead More
Leave a comment I was attacked in the Byes by wasps. The bramble bank near the scout hut is made of builder’s rubble and the cavities in it make perfect spaces for wasps’ nests. Whilst clearing around baby trees I disturbed a nest and then ran aroundRead More
Leave a comment The SVBG has a table at the Science Festival, come and talk with us in the Masonic Hall, Saturday 9th October, 11am-4pm to find out more about our river and wildflower projects, as well as all of our plans. We hope to have someRead More
Leave a comment Why Should We Test The Water In Rivers & Tributaries? In this Article We Explain How To Test The Water In Rivers & Tributaries Of The River Sid. The Sid & Its Tributaries: Provide habitat for many different animal species living in, on and aroundRead More
Leave a comment The Earth’s climate is varied and has always changed, archaeology shows that the Sahara was not desert but grassland just 6,000 years ago. At about the same time, Devon was too cold for oak trees. Some people wonder why it is such a hotRead More
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