The Devon Wildlife Trust is a member of The Wildlife Trusts partnership

The Wildlife Trusts partnership

The Wildlife Trusts is an organisation made up of 47 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom plus the Isle of Man and Alderney.The Wildlife Trusts, between them, look after around 2,300 nature reserves covering more than 90,000 hectares...

 covering the county of Devon

Devon

Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It is a registered charity, established in 1962 as the Devon Naturalists Trust, and its aim is to safeguard the future of the county's urban, rural and marine wildlife and its environment.

It has over 37,000 members which help fund its work and it is aided by around 800 registered volunteers which help with running 12 local groups and habitat management work on the charity's nature reserves. There are also some 60 full-time staff working for the Trust.

Devon Wildlife Trust campaigns on a number of regional and national wildlife issues, and also looks after some 40 nature reserve

Nature reserve

A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...

s including Sites of Special Scientific Interest such as Bystock, Dawlish Warren

Dawlish Warren

Dawlish Warren is a small seaside resort near the town of Dawlish in Teignbridge on the south coast of Devon in England. Dawlish Warren consists almost entirely of holiday accommodation and facilities for holiday-makers especially caravan sites....

, Bovey Heath

Bovey Heath

Bovey Heath is a 32 hectare area of heathland between Bovey Tracey and Heathfield in south Devon, England.Although primarily heathland habitat, the site has some wet mature oak woodland, and is home to rare species such as the Dartford Warbler, stonechat, nightjar and the narrow headed ant....

, Chudleigh Knighton Heath

Chudleigh Knighton Heath

Chudleigh Knighton Heath, near Chudleigh Knighton, Devon is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, so designated because of its rare lowland heath vegetation. It is a habitat for many rare species including the ant, Formica exsecta...

, and Dunsford

Dunsford

Dunsford is a village in Devon, England, just inside the Dartmoor National Park.The village has a number of traditional thatched cottages; a primary school which has a swimming pool, climbing wall and sports field; one village shop and post office; a tea room and a public house. St. Mary's Church,...

. Devon Wildlife Trust also manages Wembury Marine Centre

Wembury Marine Centre

Wembury Marine Centre is situated in the small village of Wembury, near Plymouth. Run by Devon Wildlife Trust, it holds rockpool rambles throughout the summer months, educating some 20,000 people each year about the importance of marine life and the need to protect it.The area is designated a...

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Nature reserves

Devon Wildlife Trust manages the following nature reserves:

• Andrew's Wood
  Andrew's Wood
  Andrews Wood, , is a nature reserve managed by the Devon Wildlife Trust.,It is also a 23.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notified in 1952....
  
  
• Ash Moor
• Ashculm Turbary
• Blackadon
• Bovey Heathfield
• Bystock Pools
• Chudleigh Knighton Heath
  Chudleigh Knighton Heath
  Chudleigh Knighton Heath, near Chudleigh Knighton, Devon is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, so designated because of its rare lowland heath vegetation. It is a habitat for many rare species including the ant, Formica exsecta...
  
  
• Dart Valley
• Dunsdon
• Dunsford
  Dunsford
  Dunsford is a village in Devon, England, just inside the Dartmoor National Park.The village has a number of traditional thatched cottages; a primary school which has a swimming pool, climbing wall and sports field; one village shop and post office; a tea room and a public house. St. Mary's Church,...
  
  
• Exe Reed Beds
• Halsdon
• Halwill Junction
• Hawkwood
  Hawkwood
  -People:*John Hawkwood, a 14th century English mercenary or condottiere in Italy...
  
  
• Higher Kiln Quarry
• Inner Warren
• Lady's Wood
  Lady's Wood
  Lady's Wood is managed as a nature reserve by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough. It lies west of the village of Upwood in the county of Cambridgeshire.- References :- External links :* *...
  
  
• Lickham Common
• Little Bradley Ponds
• Lower East Lounston
• Marsland
  Marsland Valley
  Marsland Valley is a nature reserve situated in two large valleys which straddle the Devon-Cornwall border. It is a designated nature reserve jointly managed by the Devon Wildlife Trust and the Cornwall Wildlife Trust...
  
  
• Mambury Moor
• Meshaw Moor
• Mill Bottom
• Old Sludge Beds
• Rackenford and Knowstone Moor
• Ruggadon Middlepark
• Scanniclift Copse
• Sourton Quarry
• Stapleton Mire
• Stowford Moor
• Swanpool Marsh
• The Rough
• Uppacott Wood
• Vealand Farm
• Veilstone Moore
• Venn Ottery
• Volehouse Moor
• Warleigh Point
• Wolborough Fen

Campaigns

Devon Wildlife Trust actively promotes and runs a number of campaigns:

• Climate Change - focusing on adaptation
• Lyme Bay Reefs - protecting rare corals from scallop dredging
• Wildlife gardening
  Wildlife gardening
  A wildlife garden is an environment that is attractive to various forms of wildlife such as birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals and so on...
  
   - encouraging the public to make space for nature on their own patch
• Culm grassland
  Culm Measures
  The Culm Measures are a geological formation of the Carboniferous period that occur in south-west England, principally in Devon and Cornwall. They are so called because of the occasional presence of a soft, sooty coal, which is known in Devon as culm....
  
  - working to save this rare habitat through its Culm Natural Networks project
• The Big SWitch - promoting local food
• Landscape scale conservation - promoting large scale work through the Rebuilding Biodiversity project

External links

• Devon Wildlife Trust website
• Wembury Marine Centre website