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A Cleaner environment in Devon for all

Authored by mrpositive
Posted: Thu, 10/10/2013 - 2:01pm

We are looking for public support to build a fossil-free environment in Devon.

Where the air is clean and there is no pollution.

A green clean environment with clean energy that is free, mobile phones that never need to be plugged in ever again, Windows that create free energy for life. Houses built that are totally self sufficient from the national grid.

Vehicles that are a true hybrid that will run on solar and methane gas creating zero emissions into the air we breath.

A world where you can use your own bio-degradable waste and whereby creating free...

Over 1,000 seabirds now feared dead

A week after the first reports of birds covered in a sticky glue-like substance being washed up on South West beaches, wildlife charities have today confirmed that the number of dead has passed 1,000. This is in addition to the 200-plus birds in the care of the RSPCA and South Devon Seabird Trust.

The substance has been identified as polyisobutene (PIB) by researchers at Plymouth University. It is the second time in just three months that PIB has killed hundreds of seabirds in the South West.

In this latest incident birds have been found in a wide area from Dodman Point to...

Proper investigation needed after pollution says RSPCA

The RSPCA are calling for an investigation after a pollution spill harmed hundreds of seabirds for the second time in just two months.

More than 170 birds, mainly guillemots, were taken to the charity’s West Hatch wildlife centre in Taunton, Somerset, last week after being found washed up along the south coastline covered in a sticky substance. RSPCA inspectors rescued as many of the birds as they could, but unfortunately many more were found on the beaches already dead.

Experts from Plymouth University today (16 April) confirmed that the pollutant causing such devastating...

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