Category: Carmarthenshire News

The right tools for the right job
Managing conservation land often involves working in difficult or remote locations, or on terrain that is uneven, wet and inaccessible. This can make undertaking land …

Poor Mans Wood / Gallt y Tlodion receives a facelift
Following the great success of their work at a number of our west Wales reserves, the team working on Tir Coed’s Branching Out project have …

Castle Woods, Llandeilo, restoration project
The last two years have seen significant input of effort and resources at Castle Woods, thanks to funding from the Forestry Commission through its Better …

Pembrey Primary School visits Ffrwd Farm Mire
It was all hands on deck on a damp day in April when young people from the Prince’s Trust hosted children from Pembrey Primary School …

New access at Ffrwd Farm Mire, Carmarthenshire
Some new access facilities have recently been installed at Ffrwd Farm Mire nature reserve, in Carmarthenshire. The reserve, which is mostly reedbed, is open to …

Carmarthenshire Dormouse Project – March Update from Richard Pond
On Saturday 17th March I met up with Jacqueline and Paul Hartley (local dormouse experts) at Rhos Cefn Bryn reserve to give the dormouse nest …

Schoolchildren from Burry Port help out with a big clean-up in Carmarthenshire
WTSWW staff in Carmarthenshire have been joined three times this spring by students from Ysgol Glan-y-Môr in Burry Port to assist with the management of …

Habitat restoration at Cors Goch
We’ve been making the most of the winter to restore part of the margin of our Cors Goch NNR nature reserve, just west of Carmarthen. …

Fencing For Dormice
The Carmarthenshire volunteer team have had a great opportunity this month to get stuck into a really exciting project to improve the local landscape for …

An Exciting Year in Carmarthenshire
This year has been particularly exciting in Carmarthenshire. We have had some wonderful conservation finds this year. Early this year Carmarthenshire volunteer Richard Pond found …

New Wildlife Hide opens in Carmarthenshire
A new wildlife watching hide has been completed in Gallt y Tlodion / Poor Mans Wood nature reserve near Llandovery. The new hide has been …

Dormice in Carmarthenshire
I am excited to have embarked upon a survey and monitoring project of the hedgerows and small woodlands that surround Rhos Cefn Bryn Wildlife Trust …