4. What NEXT steps can we take tomorrow? As individuals: • Everybody can do something! • Join Wild Exmouth and participate @WildExmouth • Take a good, hard look at your garden - encouragement to cut the lawn less and be less tidy • Have longer grass in your garden to encourage biodiversity • Plant insect friendly flowers, covering as much as the year as possible • Make ponds • Have wood piles • Have hedgehog holes in fences and have a hedgehog home • Have bird feeders and bird boxes • Plant a tree. Plant lots of trees! • Install insect friendly “homes” • Compost • Join a school strike (Fridays for Future) • Guerrilla gardening As groups • Tree nurseries in Exmouth ( Wild Exmouth ?) • Exmouth in Bloom now adopting more insect and drought tolerant flowers in their schemes • Devon Wildlife Trust ( Exmouth Branch) to keep Bystock Nature Reserve managed • Pound Lane allotments – hedge planted and are starting to adopt non-dig gardening • Church organisations to make graveyard areas more wildlife friendly • Exmouth Wildlife Group to continue campaign to persuade EDDC to adopt a green infrastructure policy , across all new housing developments, that has a 1:1 ratio of bird bricks to each house; also a 25% tree cover; wildflower areas / verges; wildlife corridors; bat boxes ) • Exmouth Swift Group / Exmouth Wildlife Group to encourage public and private buildings to install swift boxes • Group visit to the Knepp Estate to see their rewilding As local authorities • EDDC to appoint an ecologist who champions nature and biodiversity • Town Council, EDDC to stop using pesticides that cause harm to nature • Plant many more native trees • Councils to communicate (why they are taking nature friendly actions) to the community, through signs; leaflets in doors near to an enhanced site; social media • EDDC to adopt a green infrastructure policy across all new housing developments ( See above) • Stop building on floodplains • Town Council to encourage (through their Climate Change action agenda) all Exmouth schools to adapt their curriculum to include climate change and biodiversity strands • Nationally, the school curriculum should be adapted to include climate change and biodiversity strands