Citizen Science Species Monitoring & Recording for the Saving Devon’s Treescapes Project closed at the end of September 2025.
Your species records are valuable, and just because Saving Devon’s Treescapes has closed, doesn’t mean there is no home for your records! Devon Biodiversity Records Centre (DBRC), Devon Wildlife Trust and partners are still interested in these. Here is some information on how to continue submitting records to help support our wildlife.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Notable Trees
To continue recording significant trees (notable, ancient & veteran) please submit records to DBRC or to the Woodlands Trust's Ancient Tree Inventory (ATI)
Brown Hairstreak Butterflies
Butterfly Conservation partnered with Saving Devon’s Treescapes and remains interested in monitoring Brown Hairstreak butterfly distribution across Devon through egg surveys. You can watch the training video
Please submit the results of your surveys anywhere in the county using Butterfly Conservation’s iRecord Butterflies app, which can be downloaded to your phone.
You may also be interested in getting involved with the Devon Branch of Butterfly Conservation, which runs regular events.
Lichens
Many of those who attended Saving Devon’s Treescapes events have now joined the South-West Lichen Group (SWLG), a local group of the British Lichen Society (BLS). The SWLG aims to meet once a month for a field meeting, which produces records for the BLS.
All lichen recording should happen under the BLS recording system which you can find out more about here .
To find out more or join the SWLG, please contact Lindsay Mahon on linds506@yahoo.com, putting ‘SW Lichens’ in the subject field.
Other wildlife
DBRC is always delighted to receive records of any of the county’s wildlife to add to the species database. You can find out what sort of information is helpful, and how to submit it to the records officer here.