Buckfastleigh West
Discover local nature and climate groups and find out what your community is doing to reduce its carbon footprint and promote nature.
Carbon Impact Tool
Local Groups
Devon Wildlife Trust Wilder Communities Team
Wilder Communities advice; Wilder Communities Award (coming soon); Wildlife Gardening Award
Moor Trees
Moor Trees grows native broadleaved trees in two South Hams nurseries from seed collected locally by its volunteers for planting in South Devon especially Dartmoor National Park. We campaign for a more nature-rich Dartmoor with temperate rainforest filling its valleys and help organisations elsewhere to copy our model.
South Hams Tree Wardens Network
We protect mature trees in Parish Conservation Areas and trees with Tree Protection Orders (TPOs) on them. Also involved in lobbying SHDC on the importance of trees in planning.We are affiliated with the Tree Council who run the Tree Warden scheme nationwide.
Local Projects
Calculate and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Providing tools to help people understand their own carbon footprint
Build Community with a New Hub
Moor Imagination Collective intend to develop a community hub in Buckfastleigh
Living Churchyards: Protect Wildlife in Your Local Churchyard
Devon Living Churchyards Project encourages churches to support wildlife
