“The Nature Networks project is in full swing on our Wildlife Trust south east Wales nature reserves! And it’s all about the tree management”

WTSWW’s ‘Connecting the Future’ project work has focussed on high priority ash dieback work on a number of Wildlife Trust reserves including  Coed y Bwl, Coed y Bedw, Coed Dyrysiog, Coed Garnllwyd, Pwll y Wrach. Much of this work has been to make safe roadside trees.
 

Vicarage Meadows

Our Nature Networks team have been busy at Vicarage Meadows reserve too.  

Work has been carried out to prune and reduce the grown of a beech tree hedge growing on the field boundary between the east and the western meadow. The tree work is to reduce shading and leaf fall effects on the meadow as this may be a factor contributing to the decline of the small white orchid. 

Evidence from old photographs that these trees have grown and spread out considerably. Managing the height will also reduce the likelihood of these mature trees being windblown which would cause damage to the meadows.

Visit vicarage meadows

The Nature Networks £500,000 grant fund will support two WTSWW projects, they are ‘Sentinels of the Sea’ marine project and the ‘Connecting the Future’ terrestrial based project until March 2023. The Nature Networks Fund is funded by the Welsh Government and administered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in Wales.