News: Bowden Pillars

Project leader, Claire Inglis, guides a group of local visitors around the site of the new temperate rainforest

Work begins on new Devon rainforest

• The first trees have been planted by local volunteers at Devon Wildlife Trust’s Bowden Pillars site, near Totnes

• Local people help charity plant 7,000 native species trees

•…

DWT land at Bowden Pillars Credit Strutt & Parker

Devon to benefit from The Wildlife Trusts’ Atlantic rainforest recovery programme

Sunday 11 June 2023

• Devon Wildlife Trust to restore lost habitat with share of £38 million Aviva fund
• New rainforest nature reserve will be created near Totnes
• Devon project is the first in South…

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Work begins on new Devon rainforest

Devon to benefit from The Wildlife Trusts’ Atlantic rainforest recovery programme

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