In Pembrokeshire we have 14 nature reserves including the significant reserve at Teifi Marshes. Nathan Walton the Wildlife Trust Officer manages these with the assistance of volunteers from the area.
Nathan Walton Wildlife Trust Officer for Pembrokeshire
The suite of WTSWW’s nature reserves in Pembrokeshire includes some strikingly different kinds of woodland, and we’ve achieved some great successes in each.
Future work. Nathan has already been successful at securing funding for Pengelli and West Williamston through Better Woodlands for Wales, but these do not pay full costs, and further funds are sought to help us realise our aspirations for these sites.
In Pengelli, areas of trees have been identified for groupfell, to promote both structural diversity and create naturally regenerating glades. This is the start of a wider dream to fulfil a lengthy rotation within the woods, identifying areas to manage and areas to leave alone, providing assisted and natural management of the woodland.
Tracks and pathways are to be resurfaced where needed and new tracks constructed to aid extraction of felled timber.
In West Williamston, thinning of the ash and sycamore will provide greater habitat variety and allow more light to penetrate through to the woodland floor encouraging species such as common twayblade.
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Gardens can offer a fantastic biodiversity resource. They provide stepping stones in urban areas which can be used by mobile species to move between suitable areas of habitat and often they contain a wide range of habitats such as water features, shrub borders, flower borders, stone and log piles, compost heaps and sheds / buildings. These ... - 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 ... - Pembrokeshire Garden Survey!
Welcome to Pembrokeshire Biodivesity Partnerships’s Garden Wildlife Survey which aims to discover the hidden wildlife in Pembrokeshire. The Partnership cannot achieve this alone, so we are asking you to get involved in the survey by telling us about the wildlife you see using your garden (e.g. nesting, feeding, etc.)
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To submit this form by email, ... - The Puffins Come Home
On Skokholm and Skomer Islands this time of year is always waited for with bated breath for this is when the many thousands of birds start coming home to breed.
For anyone who has not visited either of the islands it can be hard to imagine what a bird paradise these places are. Free of rats ... - Alice Returns to Skokholm
Anyone who has visited the beautiful island of Skokholm, off the Pembrokeshire coast, will know who Alice is. She guards the Wheelhouse, one of the buildings on the island, and is the figurehead from the shipwreck the Alice Williams.
The Alice Williams was shipwrecked off the island in 1928 and the remains of the ship was ... - Beasts of the Western Wild Return
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Dowrog Common, a 242 acre nature reserve just outside St Davids in Pembrokeshire, has recently benefitted from funding to implement a network of new ponds and scrapes. Most of the monies for these works came from Amphibian & Reptile Conservation although a generous donation from the Really Wild Festival, a local community led organisation, enabled ...
