Hundreds of South West school children have learned the importance of farming to us, the environment and our local landscapes – without even leaving their classroom. They’ve taken part in the Kingfisher Award Scheme, an educational event which normally sees around 1,500 youngsters visiting local farms to explore the natural world and help them make…
A hugely popular activities week celebrating the wildlife, history and landscape of East Devon’s new National Nature Reserve, is to go ahead this month. The annual East Devon Heath Week had to be cancelled last year due to the pandemic, but it’s now set to take place on the East Devon Pebblebed Heaths from Sunday…
The East Devon Pebblebed Heaths has received international acclaim after being presented with the much coveted declaration of National Nature Reserve.
PACCo is a €26m cross-border initiative supported by the European Union’s Interreg V A France Channel England programme that will create a guide for others on how to manage coastlines and estuaries sustainably in the face of climate change. Focussing on two pilot sites; the lower Otter Valley, East Devon, England and the Saâne Valley…
Twelve members of the Clinton Devon Estates team are gearing up for the 2021 Nello Cycle Challenge on the 27th June, raising money for local cancer charity, FORCE (Friends of the Oncology and Radiotherapy Centre, Exeter). The Nello Cycle Challenge is a highlight of the annual cycling calendar in the South West and has raised…
Our Head of Wildlife and Conservation, Dr Sam Bridgewater, has been interviewed on BBC Radio Four’s Farming Today programme, about the Lower Otter Restoration Project. Work is getting underway on the £15 million project at Budleigh Salterton, which will reconnect the Otter Estuary with its original floodplain for the first time since 1812. The managed…
Nine years after one of East Devon’s most iconic hilltop plantations was saved from the rapid spread of a deadly tree disease, the green shoots of recovery are signalling the rescue programme’s success. In 2012, 10 hectares of mature Japanese larch trees had to be felled at Otterton Hill near Budleigh Salterton, after the crop…
The River Otter Beaver Trial has received international media coverage after being featured on CNN. In an online article and video, the broadcaster looked at how England’s beavers are once again living wild in East Devon. The Estate is proud to have been a part of the five year River Otter Beaver Trial. It was…
How Devon is leading the way in conserving and improving the natural world By John Varley, CEO, Clinton Devon Estates Imagine for a moment the news agenda without Covid-19… If press and broadcast media weren’t reporting on the global health emergency, would the headlines and column inches be filled with news of the global climate…
The Lower Otter Restoration Project featured at the Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation Action, as an example of how Britain is adapting to the climate crisis.