{"id":54054,"date":"2021-11-11T11:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T11:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=54054"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T11:41:14","slug":"has-your-organisation-given-nature-a-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/has-your-organisation-given-nature-a-helping-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Has your organisation given nature a helping hand?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has your community group, organisation or school been taking action to restore nature? Perhaps you know of a special person who\u2019s been going above and beyond to give wildlife a helping hand? If so, the Devon Local Nature Partnership (LNP) wants to hear from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Devon LNP is launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devonlnp.org.uk\/take-action\/communities\/devon-wildlife-community-of-the-year-awards-2021-22\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Wildlife Community of the Year Awards<\/a> to celebrate parish and town councils, communities, schools and special individuals that have going that extra mile to address the urgent Ecological Emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are some fantastic projects and initiatives popping up all over Devon that deserve proper recognition for their fantastic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examples of projects, initiatives and actions that the Devon LNP would like to hear about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Taking action to save a rare species or habitat<\/li><li>Started a new wildlife community group<\/li><li>Managing public greenspaces more sensitively for wildlife (changing cutting regimes etc.)<\/li><li>Creating a new nature reserve or habitat like a wildflower meadow or community pond<\/li><li>Developing and implementing a new wildlife action plan<\/li><li>Running a programme of wildlife training courses to help upskill local people<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winners will have a choice of exciting prizes being funded and donated by the Devon LNP\u2019s many partners. These will be presented at a Devon LNP event in autumn 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devonlnp.org.uk\/take-action\/communities\/devon-wildlife-community-of-the-year-awards-2021-22\/\" rel=\"noopener\">You can read more about the awards on the Devon LNP website, including how to apply.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1027],"class_list":["post-54054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-and-climate-change","tag-devon-local-nature-partnership"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"category_priority":false,"cslink":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2028-10-17 14:22:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54068,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054\/revisions\/54068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}