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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, was once described as one...
Stop the War on Nature

Stop the War on Nature

We need your help to create a Nature Investigations Unit for Wales - to help stop the ongoing attack on nature and to hold environmental decision makers to account. Our Nature Investigations Unit will consist of experienced Journalists, Campaigners and Researchers who will help uncover, expose and challenge the issues affecting nature recovery in Wales, along with proposing appropriate solutions. PLEASE DONATE TODAY "Nature...
Fiona (Flo) Evans

Fiona (Flo) Evans

Fiona (Flo) Evans spent a substantial part of her conservation career in the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC), working with landowners, farmers and planners to conserve fragile ecosystems. She loved to debate and was a passionate advocate for nature as well as an expert witness in conservation prosecutions. The SSSI on which she spent the most time, effort and determination was...
String of Sausage Lichen

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 investigate issues impacting nature and...
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Conservation Report 2023/24

Thank you for all your support of INCC over the past 12 months. With your help we have been able to undertake important landscape nature conservation projects, as well as legally challenge environmental decision makers on behalf of wildlife. We have summarised our activities in this year’s Conservation Report which can be viewed by clicking the link below Conservation Report...

INCC Quarterly Newsletter

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Conservation Officer – Job Advert | Swyddog Cadwraeth – Hysbyseb Swydd

Thanks to funding from the Pen-y-Cymoedd Vision Fund, INCC are looking to appoint a Conservation Officer to oversee our three-year upland Water Vole conservation project in the Glamorgan uplands, South Wales. Diolch i gyllid gan Gronfa Weledigaeth Pen-y-Cymoedd, mae INCC eisiau penodi Swyddog Cadwraeth i oruchwylio ein prosiect cadwraeth Llygod Pengrwn y Dŵr ucheldirol tair blynedd yn ucheldiroedd Morgannwg, De...
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Fair Pay for Fair Work – Countryside Jobs Service

Back in 2022, INCC undertook some research into wages and conditions in the conservation sector, publishing this research in Natur Cymru (edition 65). The article highlighted that many roles in conservation, at that time, were poorly paid in relation to the skills and experience expected of applicants. It also highlighted the perilous nature of employment, especially for early career jobseekers,...
Marsh Fritillary feeding on Meadow Thistle on Llantrisant Common.

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 on the common. INCC staff...