Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
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 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 Devon’s Unique Landscape, Spanning Rugged Uplands, Coastal Clifftops, Lowland Heath, And Recovering Industrial Sites, Relies Heavily On Hardy Native Pony Breeds As Ecological Keystones. Primarily utilising Dartmoor and Exmoor ponies, conservation grazing in the county leverages specific biological traits to maintain biodiversity, manage scrub,Read More
Leave a comment The push towards a more plant-based food system has gained significant momentum in the UK. Research from organisations like the Food Foundation shows that livestock accounts for 65% of agricultural emissions while using 85% of our farmland, yet provides only 32% of our calories.Read More
Leave a comment Welcome to the Sid Valley Community Nature Reserve! What is the Community Nature Reserve? The Sid Valley Community Nature Reserve is a valley-wide initiative bringing together residents, local groups, and organisations to turn our individual green spaces into a connected haven for local wildlife.Read More
Leave a comment Garden Wildlife – Hedgehog. One of a series of wildlife videos by SVBG that feature wildlife in Sid Valley gardens. The garden in the video below has recorded hedgehogs for a number of years. Some years they are few in number and some yearsRead More
Leave a comment This is the first in a series of videos featuring garden wildlife found in the Sid Valley, Devon which will be featured on this website. This video was filmed on a trail cam in a garden on the outskirts of the town and theRead More
Leave a comment Celebrate National Meadows Day: Protecting Our Irreplaceable National Treasures National Meadows Day, is celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July (this year falling on 4 July). It is a vital call to action to appreciate and protect the UK’s disappearing wildflower meadows. MeadowsRead More
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