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How to make a coastal garden

Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.

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Connecting the Future - Nature Reserve Highlights

WTSWW’s ‘Connecting the Future’ project has allowed the Trust to invest in essential infrastructure work and equipment to enable them to maintain and enhance their valuable sites in south and west Wales so that they can continue to operate as key components in the Welsh nature network.
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Whelk

The common whelk is the largest sea snail found in UK seas, though you're more likely to find the dry balls of empty whelk egg capsules washed up in strandlines.

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Meet Our New Field Assistant, Ellie

I am excited to be starting a placement year with the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales where I will be working as part of the Engagement Team as a Field Assistant.

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Rivers

From otters to freshwater shrimps, all animals are dependant on an abundant and reliable supply of clean water. Rivers sustain the natural environment, wildlife and people in equal measure.

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Grayling

The grayling is one of our largest brown butterflies and a master of disguise - its cryptic colouring helps to camouflage it against bare earth and stones in its coastal habitats and on inland…

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Green tiger beetle

A ferocious and agile predator, the green tiger beetle hunts spiders, ants and caterpillars on heaths, grasslands and sand dunes. It is one of our fastest insects and a dazzling metallic green…