An update on the grazing animals project
Hilary Kehoe
Our regular page from the charity Plantlife
Unearthing the secrets of the Celtic rainforest
Dave Lamacraft
Welsh seabird colonies – how are they faring?
Gareth Cunningham
The proposed Tidal Lagoon in Swansea Bay
Ivor Rees
Mammal news and sightings in Wales
Frances Cattanach
Following the work of Natural Resources Wales
Natura 2000 – the natural wealth of Wales
Kathryn Hewitt
Inglorious: conflict in the uplands by Mark Avery
Coastlines – the story of our shore by Patrick Barkham
A William Condry Reader by Jim Perrin
A Natural History of Lighthouses by John A. Love
The Moth Snowstorm – Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy
It’s all happening at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
Pollen analysis throws light on the creation of the Middleton Hall gardens two centuries ago.
Rob Thomas
Interesting insights from the National Museum Wales
‘Stuffed, Pickled & Pinned’ – an exhibition of the wonders of nature in Welsh museums.
Sarah Daly
Our regular page from the charity Buglife
Exposed Riverine Sediments and the invertebrates found there.
Sarah Henshall
For 40 years Cardiff University’s Llysdinam Field Centre was the hot spot of university research and teaching in very rural mid-Wales. For most of that period Dr FRED SLATER was the Centre’s Director as amphibians, birds, otters, crayfish, new crops and the general environment came forward for study. Its legacy lives on in the expertise gained by the generations of students who came through its doors
The pearl-bordered fritillary is a rare, declining butterfly. Although they remain on a knife-edge in Wales, they are responding well to conservation action, as TAMMY STRETTON and RUSSEL HOBSON explain.
JOHN HAROLD considers the special nature of the highest habitats in Wales, their fragile arctic-alpine connections, and their relevance to current debates in conservation.
NEIL LUDLOW grew up on a flower-rich smallholding in Carmarthenshire. In a previous article he has described how, thanks to an inspiring teacher, he learnt and recorded the names of the wildflowers in each field on the farm. Many years later he has returned to see how the flora has fared, and to face the dislocation between memory and reality which time has wrought.
In 2014 the Welsh Government made available a £6 million Nature Fund to tackle declining biodiversity and deliver benefits to communities, with river catchments and the uplands as two of its priorities. BRADLEY WELCH reports on how some of this money has been used to halt erosion in the Black Mountains, to benefit both people and wildlife.
In Natur Cymru 46 BETHAN WYN JONES wrote about some the historic, medicinal uses of plants. Here she takes a further look at the recommendations and recipes of the 14th century Physicians of Myddfai.
The reality confounds all the good environmental intentions which have been promised for the uplands. Agricultural policy reform, agri-environment schemes and the like have not released the pressure which has been driving nature from the hills, as a recent survey illustrates. MICK GREEN argues that a more radical approach is now needed
Farming incentives, particularly payments tied to the number of sheep which farmers kept in the uplands, resulted in damage to wildlife through overgrazing of moorland habitats in north Wales. That was 30 years ago. Could some areas now be under-grazed? DAVID ELIAS considers what has been achieved and the management challenges which remain, and concludes that there is much still to learn.
