The Welsh Government’s Action Plan for the Food and Drinks Industry was announced last Friday and presents us with an opportunity to demonstrate real intent in progressing its ecosystem approach to land management in Wales. We believe the Plan...

 

This time of year is really peak time to see so many species that only grace our shores with their wonderful presence for a brief time each year.

On Wednesday evening I joined some of our loyal volunteers and curious enthusiasts on a walk in Llandegla...

The first entry when we start to enter the “awkward” letters! Three more in my A-Z … we are almost there!

T is for … Talking

Now this is something I can do well … very well, as those poor suffering souls at RSPB Cymru HQ can...

I love my job with RSPB Cymru for lots of reasons – its a great place to work, I am committed to our charitable aims, my boss is a good guy etc but the thing that really makes me appreciate my job are our wonderful volunteers who never fail to surprise...

On Friday 20 June, for the first time in 3000 years human beings will sleep 600ft underground at the National Showcaves Centre for Wales near Swansea.

Up to 15 children will put their fears to one side and take on an opportunity of a lifetime to raise...

Two more letters on our ramble through my alphabetical wildlife footpath of the past five years…

R is for … RSPB & Reedbeds

Okay … I’ve cheated a bit here... think of this one as a BOGOF offer in this A-Z … for me reedbeds and RSPB...

Natur Cymru contributor Huw Jenkins visits puffin island with RSPB Cymru Biodiversity Manager Stephen Dodd to record a programme for BBC Radio Wales Country Focus programme, read his blog and watch his video of how it went here 

The talk went really well yesterday, thank you to Kate Bradbury, Findlay Wilde and Jane Richmond from National Botanic Gardens of Wales and our Director Katie-Jo Luxton for Chairing. We discovered how we can all get gardening for wildlife in our own back...

This July the Welsh Government will publish its Future Generations Bill, with the aim of ensuring that we leave a sustainable world of life and hope to our children.  The Bill, which will establish in law sustainable development as the ‘central organising...

Celebrate British Farming and Food by visiting Penlan Uchaf Farm near Kidwelly SA17 5AF on Sunday 8 June from 11-3.30pm, for tractor and trailer tours, guided bug, bee and bird hunt and see vintage tractors! Free entry and activities for all. See poster...

RSPB Cymru is at the Hay Festival from this weekend until the 1 June, we have loads of stuff planned, you can get creative with us and add your own creations to turn this bare garden-scape into natures home – find it at the Make and Take tent at the Hay...

Here we go with the next three letters of my wander through the alphabet of my personal experiences and highlights of the past few years of being involved with RSPB Cymru and the natural world at large …

O is for … Oystercatcher

One thing...

So, our brilliant communications officer Colin Davies has been busy filming recently and has created (with the help of Greg fisher and Mat Collins) this stunning video of the bluebells at RSPB Ynys-hir. If you fancy seeing it with your own eyes why not...

“Project Wild Thing” is a rapidly growing movement which exists to champion children and young people’s connection with nature. The movement began with the launch of the feature-length documentary film “Project Wild Thing”- a witty, thought-provoking...

It’s been a couple of weeks since I blogged due to the Easter break. I was away for the holiday period... Where was I? Well with a massive stroke of luck it began with the letter L!

L is for … Lincolnshire

For someone who blogs for RSPB...

Over the last year, the RSPB Conwy nature reserve near Llandudno Junction has undergone an exciting facelift, and another piece of the project has been unveiled.

A pebble mosaic centre-piece  - made from two tonnes of pebbles – has been unveiled in Y...

 Over the past couple of weeks North Wales seems to have been a hive of activity.

There seem to be plentiful visitors making the most the best events and attractions North Wales has to offer, not least of which are the beautiful views you can experience...

Listen to this podcast over lunch if you have 5 minutes, it includes RSPB Chair Steve Ormerod of Cardiff University and John Clark of RSPB Cymru explaining why toxic chemicals banned long ago are still causing problems for dippers and their chicks. 

#FortheLoveof Welsh wildlife, we’ve joined forces with over 100 organisations to call for climate action. We’re all passionate about different things, but we’re united in our determination to tackle climate change. What do you love? Share it at ...

On the evening of 8^th May, RSPB Cymru along with Wildlife Trusts Wales and the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University is putting on a Question Time style event ahead of the European elections (22^nd May). The panellists will be MEP...

 I’ve had the opportunity, since we’ve had a lovely sunny spell over the last ten days, to really relax in the garden. Feeling the warm tingling sensation on my skin, an experience almost forgotten, with my eyes closed just taking it all in was a real...

This week I’ve been keenly taking part in an activity that Bird Watching Magazine has been advertising. It’s something they’ve been pushing on Twitter all week that they’re calling #birdinglunch.

All they’re asking people to do...

One of the UK’s rarest seabirds could become a victim of climate change as rising seas and increased coastal flooding squeezes Wales’s coastline. Little terns, the UK’s smallest tern species, return each April to breed on a small stretch of shingle on...

Woohooo!! RSPB Cymru won best feature garden at RHS in Cardiff over the weekend – thanks Denise Leech of Greenfingers Designs and Ceri Thomas, RSPB Cymru events officer – for all your hard work and effort, the garden looked fab!! More info about the garden...

I’ve just been over the RHS Show in Bute Park in Cardiff and I have to say how impressed I am with our stand and wildlife garden at the event.

The theme this year is ‘giving nature a home’ – build it and they will come – and that is spot on, because...