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So this morning we're going to do a quick wander through the, we're right in the very bottom of Dawlish Park where the big old woods meet with the new woods and where we're starting to remove the inner fencing. It's been a 12, 13 year reestablishment program here to move from what was farmed pine,
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which we got rid of, it's obviously not very biodiverse, to uh, a deciduous woods and wild grasslands, amazing wild meadows. Um, and this little corner here, we're going walking through a little alleyway of cherry trees. So in the planting, when we felt the pine we replaced it with this amazing mix of young deciduous trees mostly oak we
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wanted a really rich variety of oak but there's also some wonderful wild cherry this little corner here is a mix of both and it's a quiet corner it's you totally forget here that we're just a couple of miles from the edges of Exeter City well not even that technically we are on the edge of Exeter City here

A Wild Spring Walk in LettsSafari's Dawlish Park

Narrated Video: The hidden secrets of LettsSafari parks revealing a magical corner of Dawlish Park.
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Enjoy the first of our narrated series of early summer videos revealing the hidden corners that reflect the amazing project to turn Dawlish Park from farmed fields and pine forest into one of the world’s best examples of smaller, park-scale rewilding. (Watch video above).

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Kara Cardinale's avatar

It gets more and more beautiful and wild

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A constant journey and a magical, biodiverse corner.

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wanted a really rich variety of oak but there's also some wonderful wild cherry this little corner here is a mix of both and it's a quiet corner it's you totally forget here that we're just a couple of miles from the edges of Exeter City well not even that technically we are on the edge of Exeter City here