Yealm Estuary to Moor

Preserving the beauty and diversity of our local landscapes is valued by the community. Trees, woodlands, orchards, hedgerows and wildflower meadows all contribute to the look and feel of our communities. They are essential to wildlife for food, shelter, shade, breeding grounds and as corridors for movement and navigation. They also help to prevent soil erosion and flooding

With the help of landowners and volunteers we aim to restore and reconnect these natural habitats and together thousands of trees and metres of hedgerow have been planted and orchards restored or extended across the catchment.

Faced with extremes of weather we not only seek to protect nature but to also to use nature to help our communities. Wetland areas, retention ponds, leaky dams not only hold water back and help to reduce flooding but they retain sediments and absorb or breakdown pollutants protecting our rivers and streams.

They, of course, create additional wildlife habitats for amphibians, insects birds and mammals.

The introduction of leaky dams by Dartmoor National Park has been most effective on Dartmoor but other areas have also benefitted.

YEM is supported by Plymouth & South Devon Community Forest, the Woodland Trust, The Tree Council, eforest, Devon WildLife Trust and many more.  Regular funding from organisations such as the Environment Agency and local Councils has been instrumental in getting these projects implemented on the ground in partnership with ParkLife SW.