Start: January 2025
End: June 2026
Rivers Run Through Us is a project to involve local farmers and communities in nature restoration in the River Axe, its tributaries, and surrounding valleys.
Start: September 2022
Making Rivers Better is a free network for river-loving volunteers and citizen scientists, coordinated by Blackdown Hills National Landscape on behalf of East Devon Catchment…
Start: January 2021
The aim of the Triple Axe catchment project is to align existing and define new activity in the Axe catchment required to address key issues…
Start: January 2019
Connecting the Culm is a three year project which aims to make the River Culm and its floodplain more resilient to flood and drought, improve…
Completed
Start: June 2018
End: June 2021
Following a successful partnership bid to Natural England, a new training and collaboration network has been set up for farmers and other land managers within…
Completed
Start: January 2015
End: August 2025
Blackdown Hills Natural Futures project enabled us to find out more about the natural heritage of the Blackdown Hills, to raise awareness of the area’s…
Completed
Start: October 2018
End: October 2018
The Catchment Communities Conference, on Friday 19 October 2018, brought together community representatives, land owners and managers, and practitioners from the East Devon Catchment Partnership…
Completed
Start: December 2018
End: March 2020
Working in partnership with the Environment Agency, Devon County Council's Flood and Coastal Risk Team, East Devon AONB Partnership, Westcountry Rivers Trust and FWAG South…
Completed
Start: January 2018
End: January 2019
The white-clawed crayfish – the UK's only native crayfish – is under threat. The River Culm, in the Blackdown Hills AONB, is one of only two…
Completed
Start: December 2017
End: March 2018
Through the East Devon Catchment Partnership, Blackdown Hills AONB secured £20,000 to provide nature-based solutions across the upper catchment of the River Culm to address…
Completed
Start: April 2019
End: April 2020
The purpose of the Discovering Dunkeswell Abbey project was to raise the profile of Dunkeswell Abbey which has a rich cultural and historic interest. The…
Completed
Start: December 2016
End: August 2017
During the second world war, Dunkeswell Airfield was the only US naval air base on British soil. Our Dunkeswell War Stories project set about telling…
Completed
Start: January 2019
End: March 2021
Blackdown Hills National Landscape was one of 12 National Landscapes (formerly Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in England that took part a National Landscape Association…
Completed
Start: April 2018
End: March 2019
This project, funded by Historic England, shines a spotlight on the important field boundaries and linear landscape features of the Blackdown Hills AONB and highlights…
Completed
Start: October 2019
End: October 2024
Blackdown Hills National Landscape secured funding from National Grid’s Landscape Enhancement Initiative to restore and enhance landscape features within the National Grid transmission line corridor…
Completed
Start: September 2014
End: June 2015
For centuries, the sounds, sweat and smoke of iron-working were part of life in the Blackdown Hills. The rich iron-working past of The Blackdown Hills was rooted…
Completed
Start: February 2016
End: August 2020
The Nature and Wellbeing project helped members of the local community make the most of Somerset’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) by participating in…
Completed
Start: July 2019
End: July 2024
Blackdown Hills Nature Recovery Plan lays out the priorities and actions needed to recover nature in and beyond the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, to build…
Completed
Start: January 2020
End: October 2023
Somerset Nature Connections is a partnership project between Somerset Wildlife Trust and the three Somerset Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The project aims to help…
Completed
Start: December 2017
End: March 2021
The aim of the Woods for Water project is to stimulate woodland planting and management in appropriate locations to combat flooding and improve water quality.
