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• Exeter

  GO BATS FOR GARDEN WILDLIFE IN EXETER

  Wildlife : Nature & Wildlife Parks : Home & Garden

  Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has teamed up with DIY Greenforce in Polsloe, Exeter this month to inspire local people to help protect wildlife in their own gardens.

• Devon

  NORTH DEVON WOODLAND GETS BUG BENCH

  Wildlife : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Gardeners from Yeo Valley Community Woodland will next week be installing a new feature to help attract more people and wildlife to the site.

• Devon

  MARINE CENTRE SET TO MAKE BIG SPLASH WITH FESTIVAL

  Wildlife : Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) is this month preparing for its annual Marine Festival to be held at Wembury Marine Centre on Tuesday 19 August from 11am until 4pm.
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  Devon

  Aeronautical Wildlife Displays

  Where To Go : Wildlife : Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Recent visitors to Pennywell Farm near Buckfastleigh have been treated to some magnificent flying displays, courtesy of the diverse range of Dragonflies and Damselflies inhabiting the ponds.

• Paignton

  Half century dedicated to animals

  People & Society : Wildlife : Zoos : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Paignton Zoo Environmental Park's Curator of Birds & Reptiles Colin Bath has retired after nearly 50 years.

• Torquay

  Polar bears come to Living Coasts

  Arts & Culture : Wildlife : Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  A seven foot polar bear - complete with cub - is coming to Living Coasts. This towering Arctic predator, along with two large blue frogs, is part of a summer of environmentally-friendly art at Torquay's coastal zoo.

• Devon

  LOCAL FARMERS GET BOOST FROM APPROVAL SCHEME

  Wildlife : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has this month been giving recognition to local farmers who have made effort to diversify and encourage more wildlife to their land holding through the charity's free Approval Scheme.

• Torquay

  Turning Living Coasts upside down

  Wildlife : Zoos : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  They are animals but they use photosynthesis like plants. Crabs carry them on their backs as defence against predators. The life of the upside down jellyfish is far from ordinary.

• Paignton

  Zoo scientist's welfare quest

  Wildlife : Zoos : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  A scientist from Devon is helping to improve primate welfare around the world at a major international conference.

• China

  Wolong Panda Center Recostruction and Wenchuan Earthquake

  Weather & Environment : Wildlife : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Wolong Panda Center Reconstruction After Earthquake: the facilities in Heitaoping Wolong of China Conservation and the Giant Panda Research Center will be reconstructed in Happy Vallye (Xingfu Gou).

• Devon

  TRUST GETS READY FOR FIRST MILLING DAY

  Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks : Nature

  Following April's official opening of Cricklepit Mill on Exeter's quayside, Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) is holding a 'Milling Day' next week to tie in with National Archaeology Week.

• Devon

  HEATHY SUMMER EVENTS PLANNED

  Science & Nature : Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) is planning a series of family activities enabling local people to discover Bovey Heathfield Local Nature Reserve's amazing heathland wildlife.

• United Kingdom

  Zoo works to save not-so-common dormouse

  Science & Nature : Zoos : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is helping to coordinate conservation efforts for one of Britain's best-loved creatures.
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  Newquay

  STUDENT GAINS DREAM JOB BEFORE GRADUATION

  Science & Nature : People & Society : Weather & Environment : Careers & Jobs

  A Cornwall College Newquay student has landed his dream job, before his studies have even been completed.
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  Devon

  RARE DAMSELFLY HABITAT RESTORED

  Weather & Environment : Wildlife : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has completed conservation work at its Venn Ottery nature reserve near Exeter to help save the southern damselfly, one of the UK's most threatened insects.

• Devon

  CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH RARE GRASSLAND PROJECT

  Science & Nature : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  A conference to be held this week will launch an ambitious new five year landscape scale project which aims to save the remaining Culm Grassland of North and West Devon.

• Westcountry

  Next steps in roll out of Rural Development Programme

  Science & Nature : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  The South West of England Regional Development Agency (South West RDA) is advertising for an organisation to provide Grant Administration Services for the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) in the region from September.

• Devon

  CORPORATE CONSERVATION TO HELP PROTECT RARE SPECIES

  Conservation : Corporate : Wildlife : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  The Devon Wildlife Trust has received a grant from the Dartmoor National Park Authority's Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund to help support vital conservation work on five of the charity's nature reserves.

• Paignton

  Charity hosts moth night

  Zoos : Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks : Nature

  The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust is holding an event for creatures of the night. The charity is inviting people to come and find out more about marvellous, mysterious, magical moths.

• Devon

  JOHNNY KINGDOM TO OPEN WILDLIFE FESTIVAL

  Wildlife : Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks : Nature

  Next week Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) presents its annual Wildlife Festival as part of Wildlife Weeks. This year the festival will take place in the Pannier Market in Barnstaple on Sunday 8 June and will be opened by TV presenter Johnny Kingdom.

• Westcountry

  Living Coasts gets brilliantly batty

  Wildlife : Zoos : Whats On : Nature & Wildlife Parks

  Saturday 24th May is Brilliant Bat Day at Living Coasts.