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Oak tree - TCCT, Berry Head quarry litter pick - TCCT
Volunteers laying hedge - TCCT, Hedge laying - TCCT


Individuals
Join or volunteer for a local
conservation charity. Create space for wildlife in your garden, allotment
or window box. Take part in a local wildlife recording project.
Local businesses
Sponsor local biodiversity and geodiversity projects. Create space for wildlife on your premises. Encourage environmentally friendly practices.
Developers
Incorporate wildlife friendly features
into development design. Create new habitats (e.g. native species-rich
hedges or wildlife ponds), put up bat and bird boxes, build log/rubble piles, plant native trees. Build around wildlife corridors not through them.
Schools
Create space for wildlife at your school (e.g. build a wildlife pond), put up bat and bird boxes, plant native trees and wildflowers. Start up a school wildlife club. Take part in a local wildlife recording project.
Public agencies
Incorporate Torbay’s biodiversity into relevant plans. Conserve and where possible enhance biodiversity
by creating new habitats.
Take measures to mitigate any
impacts to biodiversity.

Recording Project
Volunteers have started entering wildlife records in to
a computer database at the Resource Centre at Cockington. If you record wildlife or you would like to help click here for more details.