Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
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 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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There is a field of barley growing near Salcombe Regis. There is nothing apparently remarkable about that, but this crop is remarkable for two reasons, it is specifically for thatching and its perimeter is a haven for nature. Much is made these days aboutRead More
Leave a comment Wildflower meadows are all the rage for many reasons: they can be a bright and cheerful spectacle when they are at their flowering peak in May and June, they produce nutritious winter food for livestock, but most importantly from my perspective, they are theRead More
Leave a comment No Mow May is an annual nationwide campaign established by the botanical charity Plantlife. It encourages garden owners, local councils, and land managers across the UK to lock their lawnmowers away for the entire month of May. But why should we cease mowing? What are theRead More
Leave a comment 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 On February 14th a Group of Volunteers, Led by SVBG, Started To Remove The Invasive Alexanders From Amongst the Daffodils On Peak Hill. Though not part of the natural fauna and therefore not actually native to this cliffside the daffodils have become a wellRead More
1 response The SVBG newsletter is a regular publication with news of biodiversity events and news in the Sid Valley, and sometimes beyond. We encourage you to subscribe to the newsletter by completing the subscription form in the right hand column … there is an alternativeRead More
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