An introduction to the East Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Scheme

with:
Nathan Robinson, East Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Area Project Lead
Matt Peasgood-Ellis, East Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Area Advisory Officer
Clémence Viel, Project Development and Support Lead.
All from Devon Wildlife Trust

East Dartmoor is a special place. Its moors, wooded valleys and upland farms support a vibrant rural economy and provide critical refuge for rare and threatened wildlife. But this landscape is under increasing pressure. Biodiversity loss, climate change, rising visitor numbers and changes to agricultural subsidy mean that rural businesses, and the ecosystems they depend on, face an uncertain future.
Through the East Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Scheme, a local partnership of landowners, farmers and conservation organisations is working together to build ecological and economic resilience, securing the future of this unique landscape.
Having completed a 3-year development phase, the project’s proposals are now with DEFRA, who will decide whether the scheme will proceed to the next stage. If successful, the project will secure funding to deliver a 20-year programme of landscape-scale nature recovery across East Dartmoor.
Join the project team to learn more about the scheme’s aims, the species and habitats it will work to protect and how local communities can get involved as work gets underway in 2028.

More about the project here: devonwildlifetrust.org/wilder-east-dartmoor

This event is organised by the Devon Wildlife Trust in collaboration with Ashburton Arts Centre. You're welcome to book a free ticket or a to choose to make a donation of the one of the amounts listed here, or anything else on the night. Donations will be split between the two organisations.

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