Emily Foot – Wildlife Trust Officer for Ceredigion
Ceredigion has 20 nature reserves which are managed by ourselves. We do this with the help of volunteers who are guided and supported by Em Foot the Wildlife Trust Officer.
Ceredigion is home to many beautiful woodlands, including the spectacular upland oak woodland Coed Simdde Lwyd, the ancient semi-natural woodlands of Nanteos, and the wonderfully varied Coed Maidie B Goddard, near Llechryd.
Em Foot, WTO for Ceredigion, has achieved great improvements to these reserves, including significant tree safety works at both Nanteos sites, and hazel coppicing at Old Warren Hill.
Trees have been thinned to promote diversity at Coed Maidie B Goddard, and path improvements undertaken, with new bridges installed.
Coupes have been opened up in Coed Simdde Lwyd to create a more varied structure in the canopy, and create a wider range of habitats. New footpaths have been created as part of a Tir Coed CAN project with assistance from Rathbone Training trainees.
We have had an extremely busy year and for the latest on all the work happening in Ceredigion then please go to the Ceredigion news section below.
- Roadside Verge Reserves in Ceredigion A few days have been spent in Coed Maidie B Goddard. We’ve been improving the path in the woodland by building some more causeway from the wood we cut during the winter which will hopefully make it less muddy to walk through. We’ve also cleared some young blackthorn and straggly brambles from the meadow where ...
- Mapping our wildlife in west Wales
A new study has investigated the character and opportunities for wildlife in the countryside surrounding the town of Cardigan.
The study was undertaken by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, working with Hugh Wheeldon & Co and with funding from Environment Wales.
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, which already owns and manages ... - Welly Free Ceredigion Another month where wellies were not a necessity! How lovely, though I’m sure the ground has appreciated the few showers we have had recently.This month we have been finishing off the winter works before the birds start nesting so we spent a day thinning in Pant Da and another in Old Warren Hill taking out ...
- Hedgelaying and daffodils It has been lovely to be out on the reserves in the drier weather this month. The sun has even been seen a few times. The snowdrops are in full bloom or going over, there are daffodils about and there is a definite feel that spring is on its way in the air. A Coed Maidie ...
- Weather in Ceredigion! A month affected by both snow and wind, but not as much as in other parts of the country. The hardy volunteers come out in all sorts of weather! We’ve been back to Coed Maidie B Goddard to continue coppicing and thinning the woodland. More trees, largely birch, have been felled in Pant Da as part ...
- From Our Archive
2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the work of WTSWW in the west of its patch. This month in our series of items exploring our archive, we head back nearly twenty years and the celebration of a different anniversary on what remains an important WTSWW nature reserve- Cardigan Island.
Dyfed Wildlife Trust Bulletin No. 65: September ... - The Woods of Ceredigion
December in Ceredigion…
Another month of mostly woodland work.
We returned to Coed Maidie B Goddard’s woodland and continued the coppicing and thinning we had started previously. Volunteers from Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire joined us for one day of this, really swelling the numbers and allowing us to get lots done but this is a big job with ...
