In 2018 DEFRA change the legislation outlining the passporting of equines. For the first time it was required that a semi-wild pony auctioned at the traditional Drift Sale and leaving Dartmoor must be given a full paper passport before it can leave the Sale field. It also demanded that the paper passport included a silhouette…

After the successful partnership between the Woodland Trust and National Trust to buy Fingle Woods and begin a landscape scale restoration of important oak woodland they now have the opportunity to run a similar project at Ausewell Woods in the Dart valley

The latest, and 200th, issue of our magazine is now out. Read about the controversial decision to allow a telecommunications mast in the Dart valley; 15 years of our conservation work on Dartmoor and how a review of our previous member newsletters and magazines reflect the DPA’s changing priorities and challenges over 6o+ years.

Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed a comment in the “News” section of the most recent edition of our Dartmoor Matters magazine, to the effect that we had enclosed a flyer providing more information on the Newbridge Emergency Services Network mast planning application.

Dear Members On 13th September at 7 pm at the Parish Rooms Tavistock there will be an event with Dr Todd Gray MBE in association with Tavistock Branch & Music Section (Devonshire Association) and the Tavistock Subscription Library. An evening of word and song revealing the long and curious history of Devon’s anthem. Unknown variants of the…

This Saturday, 8th June will see our hay meadows at Pudsham, near Buckland, open to the public from 2-5pm. This is along with a number of other hay meadows in the Buckland in the Moor area so you can spend the afternoon visiting as many of them as you like. There are even cream teas…

We were delighted to see that the fame of Dartmoor’s Blue Ground beetle is spreading. These rare beetles, once thought to be extinct in the UK, are present on DPA land at High House Waste, near Cornwood, as well as the sites mentioned in the Guardian article below.

Hayden Gabriel, who organised the Lost Words in Devon crowd-funding campaign, is speaking at the Fingle Bridge Inn on May 9th, as the latest in the Fingle Lectures series. This should be a fascinating insight into the hard work involved in turning the desire to get a copy of The Lost Words book into as…

Here is the Spring 2019 edition of our magazine Dartmoor Matters. We look at various points of view on the future of ponies on Dartmoor; learn more about the moths on our land at Pudsham; how we are working with the Museum of Dartmoor Life as well as news about the DPA and our conservation…

As you may remember from an earlier article in 2018 the government commissioned the first major review of National Parks since the passing of the National Parks Act in 1949. The DPA deliberated long and hard before finally submitting our response.