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Cornwall
ADVENTURERS WANTED TO UNDERTAKE VALUABLE MARINE CONSERVATION FIELDWORK IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY ABOARD DIVING AND RESEARCH VESSEL LOYAL WATCHER.
Education & Academia : Leisure & Hobbies : Science & Nature : Natural Sciences
Undergraduate students from across the Southwest are, for the first time this summer, being offered experience gaining practical fieldwork skills whilst exploring the beautiful Isles of Scilly.
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Mediterranean tsunami destruction
Geology
The recurrence time for events like the earthquake and tsunami that wreaked havoc in the eastern Mediterranean region in AD 365 could be as short as 800 years, suggests a report online in Nature Geoscience this week.
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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.
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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.
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Devon
FIRST BUSINESS SIGNS UP TO WILDLIFE CHARITY'S NEW ALTERNATIVE TO CARBON OFFSETTING
Weather & Environment : Wildlife
Wildlife Charity Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) based at Cricklepit Mill, Exeter has just signed up its first corporate supporter to its exciting new alternative to carbon offsetting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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United Kingdom
Farmland bird numbers set to tumble
Science & Nature : Farming : Wildlife
Farmland birds will drop in number this year even before the scrapping of set-aside land is taken to account.
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United Kingdom
A Holistic Assessment of the Human-Elephant Conflict.
Wildlife
On average, 800-1000 elephants die every year around the world due to intense human-elephant conflict.
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Devon
DEVON CHARITY TO CELEBRATE MARINE WEEKS
Weather & Environment : Wildlife : Charity
Devon Wildlife Trust is this month preparing for an array of marine themed events at its Wembury Marine Centre and North Devon Voluntary Marine Conservation Area to coincide with this year's National Marine Weeks.
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Devon
DEVONSHIRE MOTORS DONATES 4x4 TO NEW CONSERVATION PROJECT
Wildlife : Charity
Devonshire Motors based in Barnstaple have donated a Mitsubishi Shogun along with the lease of a Mitsubishi Colt to be used by Devon Wildlife Trust's Working Wetlands project officers for site visits, events and conservation work ...
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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.
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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.
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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).
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United Kingdom
Twin threat heightens flamingo's plight
Science & Nature : Weather & Environment : Wildlife
A second major threat is facing endangered lesser flamingos in Africa after the announcement of development plans close to a man-made breeding site, built less than two years ago to help reverse the birds' decline.
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Devon
PHOTO COMPETITION TO PROMOTE MARINE LIFE
Photography : Weather & Environment : Wildlife
Wembury Marine Centre and the Plymouth group of the Marine Conservation Society are running a photo competition this month to help promote the weird and wonderful wildlife found off our coasts.
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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.
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Devon
WILDLIFE CHARITY RAISES MONEY IN FAIR WAY
Wildlife : Charity : Golf
Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) held its 6th annual corporate golf tournament last week at Dawlish Warren Golf Club. The popular charity event was won by the team of four from Exeter based printing company Sprint Print.
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Ilfracombe
UNRAVELLING MYSTERIES OF THE HARBOUR PORPOISE IN NORTH DEVON
Wildlife
Tomorrow (Friday 13th June), Devon Wildlife Trust begins its search for the elusive harbour porpoise in the waters off Ilfracombe, North Devon.
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Devon
DEVON GARDEN CENTRE BECOMES WINNER FOR WILDLIFE
Gardens : Wildlife
Jefferys Garden Centre in Bovey Tracey has become the latest in a line of garden centres to receive Devon Wildlife Trust's approved garden centre status.
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Plymouth
WEMBURY MARINE CENTRE CELEBRATES WORLD OCEANS DAY
Beaches : Wildlife : Sea
The Wembury Marine Centre, near Plymouth will be celebrating World Oceans Day this week with a rockpool ramble on Saturday 7 June. Wembury beach is one of the best places to go rockpooling in the UK.
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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.
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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.
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Torquay
Web feet - first penguin blog hits cyberspace
Wildlife : Zoos : Internet
Politicians are doing it, pop stars are doing it - and now penguins are doing it. Everyone, it seems, is blogging.
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United Kingdom
Farm health check leaves wildlife ailing
Farming : Wildlife
New green checks on subsidy payments to farmers are too weak to help declining farmland birds.
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United Kingdom
HEDGEHOGS AT HALF TERM HEATH EVENT
Wildlife : Environment
Devon Wildlife Trust's (DWT) Exmouth Local Group will next week be hosting a wildlife art event at the charity's Bystock nature reserve as part of the Exmouth Festival.
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Devon
MILL GETS GARDEN MAKEOVER
Wildlife : Environment
Following last month's official opening of Cricklepit Mill on Exeter's quayside, a team of volunteers from EDF Energy will help transform part of the centre's garden this week.
