179-Devon Wildlife Trust Talks
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Saving Devon's Treescapes Online Talk
Saving Devon's Treescapes Online Talk
Ash Dieback will affect everyone, but everyone can be part of the solution.Devon’s treescapes are stunning and crucial habitats for so much wildlife. But they have been in decline for many decades and are now facing a new threat from Ash Dieback. A disease that is sadly estimated will kill at least 90% of Devon’s ash trees in the coming years.
The Saving Devon’s Treescapes project, led by Devon Wildlife Trust on behalf of the Devon Ash Dieback Resilience Forum, is here to provide hope and action in the face of these alarming changes. In this talk we will explore what we know so far about Ash Dieback as well as looking into what is being done to save Devon’s treescapes and how you can get involved.
Saving Devon’s Devon Treescapes is a partnership project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, One Tree Planted and Tesco Bags of Help. Visit our website to find out more - https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/wh...
This talk is led by Rosie Cotgreave, the Saving Devon's Treescapes project lead, and Nathan Robinson, the Woodland Management Officer.
Rosie Cotgreave has led the Saving Devon’s Treescapes project since March 2020. She is a keen environmentalist and previously worked at Friends of the Earth on many campaigns including fracking, bees and plastics.
Nathan Robinson joined Devon Wildlife Trust in 2019 as our Woodland Management Officer. He works to enhance and protect woodland habitats across our nature reserves and leads on the delivery of our ash dieback management strategy.
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Devon's Bats Talk - Conservation Communities
A talk by Helen Parr who previously worked on the Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project. Helen's talk is in three parts with information about; the variety of bats around the world and their importance to the natural world, Bats of the UK and especially those found in Devon and, ways in which we can help bat populations in our local area with changes we can make to our everyday gardening practices.
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The Science of Climate Change and its Effects on Wildlife
Vicky Pope, retired MET Office scientist, talks about the science of climate change and will give us an outline of its effects on wildlife.
The observational evidence of climate change and understanding of causes of the change that we see are probably the most important factors in helping us to understand that the climate is changing. First-hand experience often brings home the realities and challenges of climate change. But observations alone cannot help us to understand the causes, change and future risks: it is climate models that are needed to do this. It is important to understand the value of the information that models can provide but equally important to understand their limitations.
Vicky will show some of the evidence that the climate is already changing and explain the use of climate models to give us an idea of how climate may change in the future.
Finally she will give some examples of possible impacts on wildlife.
Professor Vicky Pope has had a long and successful career in the UK Met Office, fulfilling many different roles - as a climate science researcher, programme manager, communicator of publicly important science and partnership developer. She is now building a portfolio career focusing on issues that she cares about and where she can make a tangible difference. These issues include protecting and enhancing the environment, improving scientific literacy in decision making and improved access to STEM careers.
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Woodland Plants Identification - Conservation Communities
Jess Smallcombe from DBRC, introduces us to some of Devon's woodland plants, in particular ancient woodland indicators.
Can you to tell a native bluebell from a Spanish bluebell?
Can you identify wood sorrel or wood anemone?
What do these plants tell us about our woodlands?
Jess talks about some of these species, showing what to look for in order to identify them.
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How to build a mini pond
How to build a mini pond
Head to our website to download your 'Big or small, ponds for all' Wild About Gardens guide or take a look at the mini pond page and help wildlife thrive: -
How to Build a Bug Mansion
Head to our website to download your bug mansion guide or take action for insects and help these marvellous minibeasts into recovery:
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Take Action for Wildlife - Green Minds Citizen Science Webinar
Join Nick Purdew (Green Minds Urban Ranger), Jess Smallcombe (Devon Biological Records Centre Community Ecologist) and Carijn Beumer (Maastricht University guest speaker) for a talk on how you can become involved in observing and recording wildlife across Plymouth as part of the Green Minds project.
This video shows you how you can record your observations using iRecord, monitor long-term trends in biodiversity across the city, and introduces a toolkit and resources for identifying urban wildlife.
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Identifying Devon's Amphibians - Conservation Communities
Alice Pawlik, a University of Exeter PhD student, discusses amphibian identification in the South West, and how to record your amphibian sightings.
Alice also outlines her fascinating work with frogs and how you can help her studies.
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Bring Back Our Beetles
Find out about the importance of beetles and how to encourage them in your garden, including the Violet Ground Beetle and Springtail Stalker.
John Walters is a life long field naturalist who explores the natural world through field sketching, photography and video. He grew up on Hayling Island in Hampshire and has lived in Devon since 1990. John works as an ecologist, artist and public speaker and is based in Buckfastleigh. He has published several books and guides including The Wildlife of Dartmoor and has appeared in many television and radio programmes.
John will talk about the 4000 species of beetle that live in the UK and some of their varied lifestyles. They are an important part of the garden ecosystem, but like most insects they have declined in numbers over the last 50 years due to changes in management and the use of insecticides. Garden beetles, including the Violet Ground Beetle and Springtail Stalker, will be introduced and tips given to encourage them to live in your garden.
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Meadow Mammals - Conservation Communities Project
With spring in the air you’re likely to start seeing mammals on your walks. Full of interesting facts, this talk shows you how to tell them apart from one another and you are sure to learn something you didn't already know! As part of the Conservation Communities Project, we are encouraging people to send in their wildlife records.
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The Wonders of Wembury
Coral Smith, DWT's Marine Education Officer, describes the Wembury Marine Conservation Area in South Devon and the work the Marine Centre.Wembury is a magnet for wildlife – its rocky cliffs are home to nesting seabirds and the rocky shore, slate reefs and massive wave-cut platforms provide one of the United Kingdom’s best spots for marine life. Wembury and its surrounding coastline are designated as a Marine Conservation Area (MCA) and a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) which go some way to shielding it from human pressures. The Marine Centre is the ideal place to learn about the surrounding area and its wildlife; through interactive displays, regular rockpool safaris and other marine themed events.
Coral has an undergraduate degree in Marine Biology & Oceanography and a Masters in Biological Diversity, both from Plymouth University. After graduating university, she undertook various full time volunteer placements with both Devon and Cornwall Wildlife Trusts’ and National Trust, before starting work in the education team at the Marine Biological Association of the UK. Coral has been working for Devon Wildlife Trust, based at Wembury Marine Centre, for the past 6 years as Marine Education Officer.
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Egels Conservation Communities - Managing Devon Hedges for Wildlife
This is an opportunity to learn about the wildlife value of our Devon hedgerows from expert Tom Hynes (member of Devon Hedge Group).
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Brilliant Bats - Celebrating the Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project
Anna David and Helen Parr from the DGHB Team give an overview of the bat project, celebrating its achievements across Devon in the last six years.
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The opportunities and challenges of the National Action Plan for Sustainable use of Pesticides
Which direction will the UK go in after leaving the EU pesticide regulatory regime? How will we use, regulate and mitigate pesticides and their effects on people and the environment of the UK? Nick Mole is the Policy Officer for Pesticide Action Network and delivers this fascinating and interesting talk.
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The Plight of the Bumblebees
Debs Rylands will discuss the plight of the bumblebee, explore some key identification tips, the threats bumblebees face and some fun facts.
Debs Rylands, Devon Volunteer Co-ordinator for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Programme Co-ordinator for local conservation organisation, Wild Ideas, joins us to discuss The Plight of the Bumblebee. We will explore some key identification tips, the threats bumblebees face and some fun facts, as well as looking at how can we help these much-loved and essential insects.
Debs works in conservation facilitation and has a real soft spot for everyone’s favourite invertebrate, the bumblebee. Since getting her first bumblebee identification book, she has developed a passion for identifying, recording and creating habitat for our fluffy, rotund friends.
The Plight of the Bumblebees
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An illustrated talk on DWT’s Bystock Pools nature reserve.
A wander around Bystock nature reserve looking at its habitats and wildlife – birds, butterflies, dragonflies and plants, illustrated with photos.
Roger and Liz are long-standing DWT volunteers with a special interest in and in-depth knowledge of this special site. Rog and Liz are enthusiastic amateur naturalists with a range of interests. They have been members of Devon Wildlife Trust for 31 years and have been volunteering at Bystock Pools since 2004. They started helping with reserve management which they continue to this day (with a break for Covid-19). They also undertook the Breeding Bird Survey for 12 years. Over the years they have recorded anything that they see of interest and have built up a good list of species.
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How to make a bird feeder
Find out how to make a bird feeder with Education Officer Emily, using a recycled cardboard tube and peanut butter! For more brilliant bird activities and facts, go to our learning pagehttps://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/birds .
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Conservation Communities project: Winter Twig ID
During winter the leaves may have gone, but there are other ways to identify one tree species from another. Learn some of the basics for identifying one Devon tree from another in this online talk from Devon Biodiversity Records Centre.
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Egels: Conservation Communities: Hedgehog talk
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Learn how to report a hedgehog sighting and find out how you can help and encourage hedgehogs to thrive in to your garden.
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Conservation Communities: Tracks and Signs talk
Bring out your inner detective! Find out how we can identify wildlife by using their tracks and signs. By Jess Smallcombe from DBRC
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Mossen en Korstmossen Saving Devon's Treescapes: Lichen monitoring
As part of the SDT project we will be monitoring Lichen communities across Devon. This is a training session to learn how to get involved.
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DWT's CEO Harry - Past and Future, Challenges and Celebrations Talk 2020
Join Harry Barton in his review of the year, past challenges, resolutions and looking to the future of Devon Wildlife Trust.
2020 has been unique in Devon Wildlife Trust's history, with the coronavirus pandemic bringing new challenges for people and wildlife in Devon. Harry will give his personal review of the year past, its highlights, frustrations and achievements as well as looking forward to the future and what that may hold for Devon's wildlife and wild places and the part Devon Wildlife Trust will play to secure and protect its future.
Harry Barton is CEO of Devon Wildlife Trust. Harry joined Devon Wildlife Trust in 2011 and has worked for over 25 in the environmental sector. He has a passion for the environment and a particular interest in landscape scale conservation, having played a key role developing the Wildlife Trust movement's Living Landscapes programme.
DWT's CEO Harry - Past and Future, Challenges and Celebrations Talk 2020
DagVlinders As part of the Saving Devon's Treescapes project we'll be monitoring Devon's Brown - Hairstreak butterfly populations. Watch the training session here.
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Bovey Tracey Local Group Talk - Rewilding City Parks
What does rewilding mean? What are it's implications for Devon? How can it help the climate crisis? Pete Burgess will discuss.
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Bovey Tracey Local Group Talk - Devon's Hedgehogs
Exploring the lives of our spiky garden friends; find out how we can help hedgehogs and why they need our help!
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Klimaatuitspraak deel II | Milieudefensie krijgt gelijk, Shell moet uitstoot verminderen
Opnieuw een belangrijke rechterlijke uitspraak op het gebied van klimaatopwarming en wie verantwoordelijk is voor de oplossing. De Rechtbank Den Haag heeft op 26 mei 2021 uitspraak gedaan in de rechtszaak die Milieudefense heeft aangespannen tegen Shell. Deze uitspraak heeft ook grote gevolgen voor de verhouding tussen rechter en wetgever, wetgever en bedrijven en bedrijven en de rest van de samenleving.Wat was de uitspraak van de rechtbank? Wat zijn de mogelijke gevolgen hiervan? Wat zijn 'Kelderluik-criteria'? Wat is de verhouding tussen deze uitspraak en de Urgenda-zaak? Dat en meer in deze special van Verweij's videocolleges. https://www.youtube.com/c/Verweijsvideocolleges/videos
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https://circl.nl/update/watch-the-record-of-energy-transition-thursday-13-fuel-cells
To rapidly reduce CO2 emissions and make our energy mix greener, we need more than sustainable technologies alone. A sustainable business model is equally important. After all, a successful business model for sustainable technology is worth its weight in gold. In this series we discuss promising techniques and dive deeper into the revenue model behind the technology. Where lie the opportunities? Which obstacles still need to be overcome? What is fact and what is fiction? During each session, specialists from the industry analyse the technology and the revenue model. They explain how the technology works, touch upon the legal framework and explore how financing can contribute to accelerating the technology. In this episode we discuss fuel cells.https://circl.nl/update/watch-the-record-of-energy-transition-thursday-13-fuel-cells
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Voices for a living planet: Can migratory birds help us?
THEUNIS PIERSMA
Are you interested in how monitoring birds in the Northern Netherlands can help us to
understand the connection between the local and the global. And how this can help human
society to negotiate a way to a liveable future? Then you are welcome to join this lecture held by
Theunis Piersma.For the last 33 years Theunis Piersma has tried to bring synergy to the two ecological institutions
of the northern Netherlands, the ones at NIOZ-Texel and the University of Groningen.
Throughout, he has built on the amazing migratory biology of the shorebirds of the Wadden Sea
and the adjacent dairy farmland. After 11 years on the Chair in Animal Ecology at RUG, for 10
years he occupies the Rudi Drent Chair in Global Flyway Ecology and is a Senior Research
Leader at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.This lecture will take place on Tuesday June 8th from 18.45 untill 20.30. You can sign up via
the following link and get some more information and get the recording of the lecture aftwards:
theunis_piersma.eventbrite.com. Everybody is welcome to join. If you do not want to sign up,
please join the lecture via google meet.This lecture is organised and hosted by students taking the course “Birds and the Bees:
Knowledge Infrastructures for Monitoring Sustainability” in the bachelor program “Global
Responsibility and Leadership”.
Tuesday June 8th from 18.45 untill 20.30
https://meet.google.com/zkt-anbo-tuv
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/grl-birds-and-the-bees-33417014047
19:00 Inleiding door Jan Mampaey, dienst hoofd Provinciaal Natuurcentrum
19:10 Lezing “Bij-zonder landschap” door Joeri Cortens, Natuurpunt CVN
20:10 Vragen en discussie
20:40 Slotwoord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN77m6NUx8U
https://youtu.be/WN77m6NUx8U
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