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Emma Explores Redley Cliff

My name is Emma, a Media student with a love for wildlife. I'm a mission to explore Swansea's nature reserves by (mostly) public transport!

Species

Eel

The eel is famous for both its slippery nature and its mammoth migration from its freshwater home to the Sargasso Sea where it breeds. It has suffered dramatic declines and is a protected species…

Species

Biting stonecrop

Also known as 'Goldmoss' due to its dense, low-growing nature and yellow flowers, Biting stonecrop can be seen on well-drained ground like sand dunes, shingle, grasslands, walls and…

Nature Reserve

Skokholm Island

Famed for its Manx Shearwaters and Storm Petrels, Skokholm Island is a truly wild island off the coast of Pembrokeshire.

My Wild Life

My coffee shop

Friends Dawn and Ann meet up every fortnight for a walk and a catch up on one of their local nature reserves.

Nature Reserve

Pengelli Forest

Pengelli Forest is part of the largest block of ancient Oak woodland in west Wales! Status NNR. This reserve is notified as the Pengelli Forest and Pant-Teg Wood SSSI, which in turn is part of the…

Volunteer Opportunity

Sefyll dros Natur Cymru

Ydych chi rhwng 9-24 oed? Hoffech chi weithredu yn erbyn yr argyfwng hinsawdd a natur yn eich ardal lleol? Ydych chi’n barod i sefyll dros natur?

Species

Azure damselfly

The azure damselfly is a pale blue, small damselfly that is commonly found around most waterbodies from May to September. Try digging a wildlife pond in your garden to attract damselflies and…

Nature Reserve

Vicarage Meadows

This wildflower-rich meadow and wet pasture is set on the side of a hill in the Irfon valley and lies adjacent to the Nant Irfon National Nature Reserve.

Nature Reserve

Y Byddwn

This small nature reserve, which gives excellent views of the Brecon Beacons, is a section of the former Brecon to Merthyr railway line. Originally built as the Brecon to Hay-on-Wye tramroad, it…