An update from the Trusts in Wales, June 23
The Wildlife Trusts across Wales have been busy with plenty of campaigns, appeals, project work, reserve management and much more! Get a taste of what they have been up to right here.
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Save the Wye - Beyond the Welsh Borders
If you live outside of Wales, you can still support our campaigning efforts to save the Wye, as well as improve rivers across the whole of the UK!
Lowland heath
Heathlands form some of the wildest landscapes in the lowlands, where agriculture and development jostle for space, containing and limiting natural processes. Once considered as waste land of…
Rhos Pasture Restoration Project - Tourism Feasibility Study
Radnorshire Wildlife Trust wish to engage a contractor to undertake a feasibility study to assess the potential for nature-based tourism focused around rhos pasture and its associated habitats.…
Wilder Pentwyn Project Evaluation Tender
The Radnorshire Wildlife Trust wishes to appoint an independent, professional external evaluator to assess how the Wilder Pentwyn Project has performed against its forecast objectives and outputs…
With Martens in Mind
Pine martens have been sighted more and more across the county! Historically there have been scattered records of them but the feeling was that the population of native martens in Wales was too…
Farmland
Farmland can conjure up rural images of brown hares zig-zagging across fields, chattering flocks of finches and yellowhammers singing from thick, bushy hedges and field margins studded with…
Heathland and moorland
These wild, open landscapes stretch over large areas and are most often found in uplands. Although slow to awaken in spring, by late summer heathland can be an eye-catching purple haze of heather…
First locations for The Wildlife Trusts’ Atlantic rainforest recovery programme announced
The Isle of Man and North Wales are the first places where The Wildlife Trusts will begin restoring and expanding rainforests across the British Isles, following a donation of £38 million from…
Opportunity- Pentwyn Fencing Tender
RWT is seeking a fencing contractor to carry out a substantial livestock fencing project at the site of Pentwyn.
Woolly thistle
Look for the round, cottony, purple flower heads of the Woolly thistle on chalk and limestone grasslands in summer. It is mainly found in Southern England.
Upland birch wood
Elegant, airy woodlands of silver-barked birches found across the northern uplands. Often transient in feel, with scattered trees growing over the heathy field layer of the surrounding moorland,…