Shores of South Devon

WELCOME TO THE
SHORES OF SOUTH DEVON WEBSITE

South Devon is blessed with a wonderful coastline and with wonderful beaches, rocky shores and estuaries many of which are within easy reach with public transport.  These shores contain a marvellous range of extraordinary and exotic marine animals and plants that live and compete in the inter-tidal zone.  The variety and extraordinary ecology of this local environment can match that of anywhere in the world.

The Association’s aims are

1) To celebrate and promote interest in the varied and highly diverse shores of the south Devon coast

2) To bring together people with a common interest in their local marine environment to
a) learn about and share knowledge of
b) record
c) increase their enjoyment of

the fascinating natural history near them

3) To do this through
a) regular expert talks
b) surveys and shore trips, including Citizen Science projects and other external activities
c) links to other interest groups, professional and scientific bodies

The Shores of South Devon was founded in January 2020 as a voluntary association that focusses on the marine life along the coast of south Devon. In February 2025 it was decided to end having a paid up membership and some other activities in order to reduce our administrative load. We will still hold occasional evening Zoom meetings where expert speakers and others talk on a relevant topic, run stalls and organise Shoresearch citizen science surveys to our local shores under the auspices of Devon Wildlife Trust. This website will be effectively mothballed.

A link to the list of Shoresearches for this year can be found in the panel on the right. Zoom talks will be advertised on our Facebook site.

All public activities will published on our Facebook site here and also check out the Shores of South Devon Youtube channel for recordings of our Zoom talks, and some videos of the creatures of the shores between Dawlish Warren and Shaldon that here.  For Instagram tag #shoresofsouthdevon. We also have a private Facebook site for Association members only here. In addition our email address remains info@shoresofsouthdevon.org.uk.

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