Restoring Britain’s Temperate Rainforests: Insights from the Woodland Trust
During the second week of the 8 week Summer of Nature Recovery traineeship, we had the pleasure of welcoming Sam Manning from the Woodland Trust to Ambios. Sam visited to show a film and give a talk about Temperate Rainforest and his enthusiasm, passion and knowledge left all the trainees in awe of this environment. […]
Harnessing AI for Nature Recovery: Devon Rewilding Network Secures Grant for Future Landscape Visualisation
Some fantastic news! The Devon Rewilding Network, run by Ambios since it began in 2021, has been awarded a Rewilding Britain Innovation Fund grant to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to visualise different futures for some of the landscape along the banks of the River Dart. The AI uses drone flight images and produces realistic impressions […]
Welcome to Ella & David
3 weeks ago myself and David put the skyscrapers and the vibrant, yet polluted, streets of Manchester behind us. We packed our life, and our cat, into our van and headed for the river Dart. Both of us are connected to this beautiful corner of South Devon from childhood holidays and it feels so right, […]
On the 12th week at Ambios…
And like that, our 12 weeks at Ambios were up. I knew it would go quickly but I was unaware of how I would become so curious and learn so much in a short amount of time. We had just finished helping with the Bioblitz event, led by Ambios to count as many species as […]
Magical adventures down at Lower Sharpham Farm – Bethany Caley
I first visited Lower Sharpham Farm back in June 2022. I had been accepted onto the 12 Week Nature Conservation Traineeship offered by Ambios and was lucky enough to be able to attend through one of their bursary placements. Coming from inner city Leeds with no professional experience of the outdoors, this traineeship was truly […]
Emma’s Gold DofE residential at the farm????
I came to Lower Sharpham Barton Farm on a 5-day placement as part of my Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. This experience has encouraged me to work with people as a team, quickly adapt to unfamiliar environments, develop my communication skills, and gain a wider understanding of conservation and farm life. I have thoroughly enjoyed […]
Introducing Medeine
Who could have thought that my back garden would be the river Dart? For the last three weeks, I have been waking up with the morning dawn chorus and eating fresh salad daily from our polytunnel in the top-hill garden. The valley is changing as nature is slowly waking up from winter bringing more warmer […]
A beautiful beginning
The spring season has officially begun, and with it, our introduction to Ambios. Nestled into the hillside amongst swaying trees, nature welcomes us with its usual spring flurries of sunshine, showers, and gusty breezes. Through the veil of trees, the expansive estuary can be glimpsed below, calling us deeper into nature’s embrace. It’s beautiful. Filled […]
