Some fantastic news for our Llwyndewi nature reserve. […]
Restoring Llwyndewi: Funding Success for Ammanford Nature Reserve
Category: Habitat restoration
Establishing the new South Wales American Mink Partnership (SWAMP)
Invasive Non-native Species (INNS) are one of the principal threats to biodiversity worldwide. Huge amounts of money are spent annually in the UK on the removal and/or control of species such as Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica, American Signal Crayfish Pacifasticus leniusculus and Grey Squirrels Sciurus carolinensis. One of the UK’s most significant INNS is the […]
NRW admits Environmental failures
After a two-year battle with Natural Resources Wales (NRW) the wildlife charity The Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru (INCC) has forced Wales’ statutory environmental body to use their own legal powers to safeguard one of South Wales’ most important grassland habitats. The Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), which cannot be named for legal reasons, […]
INCC Quarterly Newsletter
Welcome to INCC’s Autumn / Winter newsletter, summarising some of the many conservation projects we are undertaking for wildlife across Wales. Over the last few months staff and trustees have been hard at work fundraising for our Investigating Nature Project, which if successful will see a dedicated team of journalists and researchers set up to […]
Saving Wales’s upland Water Voles
INCC and partners are aiming to save a population of one of the UK’s rarest and fastest declining mammal species, the Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius). “We have lost so many of our Water Voles in Wales over the past fifty years or so. If we don’t do something urgently, we may end up losing this […]
Farmland restoration in the Vale of Glamorgan
In 2023 INCC were approached by new landowners in the Vale of Glamorgan who had just purchased a 77ha farm. Until relatively recently, it was a mixed sheep and cattle farm comprising of agriculturally improved grazed pasture and sileage fields along with small areas of deciduous woodland and dense hedgerows. The landowners are passionate about […]
Amman Valley: Community Wildlife Garden
INCC and volunteers have transformed a piece of land in the Amman Valley into a wildlife garden, now thriving with wildlife and open to visitors. In early 2022 INCC took over responsibility for an area of land next to the bowls pavilion in Garnant, with the idea of creating a wildlife garden for use by […]
Marsh Fritillary Project Update December 2023
It’s over a year since our last update on the Marsh Fritillary population reinforcement project and a lot has happened since then, both on Llantrisant Common and in the rearing pens at the National Botanic Gardens. In the last update we were just about to embark on the release of the next batches of caterpillars […]
Yellowhammer Conservation in the Vale of Glamorgan
INCC is aiming to increase the fortunes of one of Wales’ rarest and most colourful farmland birds – the Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella). The project will see landowners and conservationists working together for Yellowhammers and other wildlife at a mixed farm in the Vale of Glamorgan. To help Yellowhammers and other farmland wildlife at the farm, […]
Gwirfoddoli a INCC / Volunteering with INCC
Mae gwirfoddolwyr yn hanfodol i’r gwaith rydyn ni’n ei wneud. Mae Rhodri Rutherford wedi bod yn gwirfoddoli gyda’r INCC, gan helpu i fwydo lindys britheg y gors drwy ddarparu planhigion tamaid y cythraul ffres yn barhaus a sicrhau bod y planhigion yn cael eu dyfrio’n dda. Diolch! Volunteers are crucial to the work that we […]
