Culm Community Crayfish

A dozen large, breeding-age white-clawed crayfish have just been released into a privately owned ark site in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Nicky Green  has been working with crayfish in Devon and Somerset for almost twenty years. Her interest has grown over the years to the point that 'crayfishing' is now a full-time job. She has [...]

Bruce Payne shares the delights of crayfish surveying

Earlier this month we held an event ‘All About Crayfish’ to share what we have achieved and some of the findings of the

With the help of some very creative young visitors to the River Culm Fair, we have put together this charming and enlightening stop-frame animation.

As part of Blackdown Hills AONB’s Culm Community Crayfish project, volunteers have been helping us to survey the River Culm to gather important information about the native white-clawed crayfish, [...]

Sarah Marsh, volunteer project assistant with the Culm Community Crayfish project, has been getting valuable experience in the environment sector, while on volunteer placement with Blackdown [...]

Our new Culm Community Crayfish project is now well underway. With the help of the local community, the project will help us to learn about and safeguard the future the endangered white-clawed [...]

Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership (AONB) is embarking on a new project which will help communities around the River Culm learn about, survey and look after the white [...]