Common puffball
This common fungus puffs out clouds of spores when it's mature.
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Marsh Fritillary Update
The Brecknock nature reserves, Ystradfawr and Cae Lynden near Ystradgynlais, are reknown sites for Marsh Fritillary butterflies. The management of these sites focuses on supporting the habitat…
My jump leads
Ann and her husband nurture and cultivate specialist sphagnum mosses and vascular plants like bog cranberry for a community area of the moss: they’re kickstarting the vegetation growth on Little…
Sand dunes
Sand dunes are places of constant change and movement. Wander through them on warm summer days for orchids, bees and other wildlife, or experience the forces of nature behind their creation - the…
Craig y Rhiwarth
This reserve contains some of the finest examples of limestone plant communities in Brecknock. The reserve contains more than 400 species of trees, flowers, moss and lichens.
My motivation
I’m Libby, and I’m currently completing a research development internship in sustainable aquaculture (basically farming in water) at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban. In…
Wildlife Watch Member Flies High with Kestrel Award.
Elliott Jones, a regular Wildlife Watch member at the Welsh Wildlife Centre in Cilgerran, has just completed his Kestrel Award after more than a year’s work and activities.
Brownfield
The uncontainable nature of wildlife is perhaps clearest in brownfield sites – previously developed land that is not currently in use. The crumbling concrete of abandoned factories, disused power…
Mother Shipton
This striking day-flying moth is named after a 16th century witch.
Thank you
By becoming a member of The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales you've joined a movement full of people who care about precious wildlife and wild places. From helping to look after over 100 nature reserves to campaigning for the protection of vulnerable wildlife, your money will be used right at the heart of our work.
My rambles
Andrew and Adrian, volunteers and pioneering walkers of The Rothschild Way. Both have tirelessly raised funds and put in countless hours to the best cause they know – nature. And they know they…
Marine
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…