Project overviews

Understanding Grasslands: training in grassland survey techniques and recording species rich grassland.

Understanding Rivers: the Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) will recruit, train and support a network of volunteers and volunteer coordinators to undertake water quality and biological monitoring in the DDL focus rivers.

Understanding Moorland Birds: establish a small team of skilled volunteers to undertake annual surveys, aims to help land managers and owners across the Commons and Newtakes understand more about the birds on their land.

Dartmoor’s Ancient Tree Hunt: work with local communities to raise awareness about and encourage people to survey and record Ancient and Veteran Trees. The Woodland Trust will collaborate with other partners engaging young people.

Hall Farm: learning from a newly tenanted farm to understand how trees, woodland and other natural capital can be successfully incorporated into a viable family farm business.

Wood n’ Moor: further developing an economically viable model for restoration of ancient semi-natural woodland sites on lower value plantations.

Peatland Restoration: While the Peatland Partnership undertake restoration of important peatland sites, other DDL Partners will help people learn more about this natural resource and seek opportunities for other integrated benefits.

The Dartmoor Headwaters Project: is an Environment Agency funded project that delivers natural flood management (NFM) interventions to help reduce downstream flood risk. Alongside flood mitigation, the project aims to enhance biodiversity and build climate resilience across seven priority catchments, including those above Ivybridge and Okehampton.

Hillfarm Hub: will provide additional support through the Dartmoor Hill Farm Project, this will include knowledge sharing opportunities and targeted help to develop bespoke projects and access funding for farms and Commons.

River and Moorland Festivals: A series of community focused arts festivals in the three towns, developed in consultation with local communities and creative people.  The festivals provide a focus for partners to work together and help celebrate the landscape story.

Moorscapes: a community grant scheme for smaller local organisations to deliver their own projects.

Harnessing the Flow: volunteers will be trained and supported to undertake surveys of tin streaming features on Dartmoor.

Gateway Hubs: improving accessibility and knowledge of local green space in the three towns with a focus on better understanding of Dartmoor as a living landscape and responsible visitor behaviour.

Bike It Moor: working with primary and secondary schools in Ivybridge, Okehampton and Princetown to increase the number of pupils and their families actively travelling (walk, wheel, scoot and cycle) and connect them to local green spaces.

Farm to City: A programme of activities to connect and engage communities living in Wandsworth, London, with farming and conservation communities on Dartmoor. The project will take a Dartmoor farm to inner London.