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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.

• 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.

• 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

  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.

• 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.
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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 ...

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.