Summer 2025 Rewilding Updates
As we pass the halfway mark of 2025, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the changes taking root across our rewilding site. We have plenty of exciting observations to report made during the course of our spring/summer traineeship! Read on to discover how biodiversity is bouncing back, what new species have emerged this year, […]
Rooting to Rise
On a bright and crisp morning, we milled in the sun excited for our Community Forest tree planting session to begin. Jess joined us and invited us to the yurt to share a presentation to put our day’s activities in context. She shared the rationale for the project and the process the team went through […]
Birds, Plants and Mud – The Saltmarsh Project
The Summer of Nature Recovery trainees had the pleasure of hearing from Isabel Carlisle of the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) about the work being done on the Saltmarsh Project on the River Dart, which has been running for 2.5 years. What is the Saltmarsh Project? A partnership between the BLC, Environment Agency, Duchy of Cornwall […]
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 […]
Restoring Nature 2024
Friday – Setting up the barn Transforming the barn from a working agricultural space into a festival venue is a big team effort. Before we begin, the ground is cleared of manure from our herd of Belted Galloways. The manure will nourish the soil in our vegetable garden for years to come. Next, it’s all […]
Cirl Bunting Hunting
We were staring intently into a quadrat whilst immersed in a vegetation survey on the upper rewilding field when Mike’s face suddenly glazed over and a look of excited intent spread across his face as he cocked his head slightly to one side. “Did you hear that?” “Have you got the Merlin app on you?” […]
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 […]
Devon Rewilding Network visit to Brook Manor
There was a big turnout for the first Devon Rewilding Network site tour of the year and our hosts Kevin, Donna and Robbie have set a very high bar for the rest of the season. On 150 acres in the Mardle valley near Buckfastleigh, three things struck me. Firstly, the attention given to optimising niches […]
