RSPB Cymru has joined forces with Size of Wales to help save the home of some of the world’s most important wildlife. Gola Forest in Sierra Leone is home to hundreds of species, from the world’s most important population of pygmy hippo...

A recent report [commissioned by the Welsh Government] on The Resilience of Welsh Farming, highlighted the fragility of upland farming, and identified environmental payments as a means of support that would also deliver wider benefits to society. In line...

The highlight of last week for the Community Team was, without a doubt, James’s 11 memberships made at ASDA in Coryton! A big RSPB Cymru “THANK YOU” goes out to the store for providing us with a date to come in and meet with their shoppers....

Gola’s pygmy powerhouse

We'll be talking a lot about Gola this month, and with good reason. If you haven't yet heard, we're teaming up with Size of Wales to raise crucial funds for the protection and conservation one of the world's most...

Keeping a bird list can be a funny thing. Birds that elude you one year can be everywhere the following one. A few years back I hadn’t seen a single Green Woodpecker all year until I visited RSPB and the Lodge just before Christmas. Outside the...

 As the State of Nature report highlighted last year, much of our wildlife is declining. In Wales numbers of lapwing have plummeted by more than 75% and 97% of our wildflower meadows have disappeared.

 80% of the Welsh countryside is farmed and getting...

I ddarllen hwn yn Gymraeg sgroliwch i lawr

Glastir, the Welsh Government’s wildlife-friendly farming scheme, is the main tool for rewarding farmers who protect and maintain our countryside. The Government’s current review of the scheme is a vital opportunity...

Every year and particularly in winter, some seabirds are washed up on beaches in Wales. Seabirds face many hazards, both man-made and natural, and birds may be storm-wrecked by adverse weather conditions that exhaust the birds and sometimes very large...

It’s been a tough couple of months for the Wales Community Team. With only two staff covering various venues in South Wales, we’ve really had our work cut out for us. But we’ve proved we’re tougher than we look! James and Helen have bravely battled against...

 

RSPB woodland Warden Jimmy Carter shows Events Officer Ceri Thomas how its done.

 

During National Nest box week RSPBs Cymru’s public affairs team left the warm and dry confines of their office to put up nest boxes in the spectacular woodland reserve...

As I’m sure you know from reading our other blogs and watching our short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3W4gQHDFXE ), that Welsh Government are currently proposing to extend the protected areas for some of our seabirds.

But what you might...

With National Nestbox Week and London Fashion Week both starting today, top Welsh designer Julien Macdonald from Merthyr Tydfil and a number big names from the British fashion industry have come together to help save nature by putting their unique stamp...

As part of this year’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch I teamed up with Caerphilly County Council to help give nature a home in four primary schools in the Blackwood area. Over two action packed days I worked with Caerphilly’s County Council’s Andy Wilkinson and...

0412.SPA Extension Poster.pdf

The Welsh Government has proposed to extend three Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in Wales. These are the SPAs of Bardsey Island & Aberdaron Coast, Skokholm & Skomer and Grassholm. These are three SPAs that have been deemed...

To celebrate the start of National Nestbox Week, a free family workshop is being organised this Sunday 16 February at Penlan Farm Uchaf to create the perfect love-nest for the wildlife in your garden. National Nestbox Week starts on Saturday 14 February...

On Saturday morning The National Assembly for Wales became the latest landmark in Wales to join RSPB Cymru’s Giving Nature a Home campaign, aimed to inspire more people in Wales to create new homes for nature.

In June 2013, RSPB Cymru launched...

What is this I hear you ask? Despite its long winded title, it’s simply a long awaited extension of protected areas around existing seabird colonies in Wales. You might hear people refer to them as SPA extensions.

These colonies are the areas where...

Newyddion da! Mae Llywodraeth Cymru am ymestyn Ardaloedd Gwarchodaeth Arbennig (AGA) yn Ynys Enlli, Ynysoedd Sgogwm, Sgomer, a Gwales. Gwyliwch ein fideo i weld sut all hyn gwarchod ein bywyd gwyllt morol. / Good news for seabirds! The Welsh Government...

I don't know when one stops being a "newbie" birdwatcher and graduates into a proper birder, but I can tell you a lot of my education has come from the pages of Birdwatching Magazine. I have gotten to know Matt Merritt, the editor of the magazine, a little...

Hir pob aros..ond o’r diwedd mae penwythnos Gwylio Adar yr Ardd bron yma, gwyliwch ein teulu ffabiwlas yn paratoi ac yn cymryd rhan.. / The time has come, to talk of many things...well Big Garden Birdwatch actually, watch our great family getting ready...

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." ~Maria Robinson

 I’m not usually one for quoting, but I do love this sentiment. It speaks to me about making a positive difference in whatever...

A belated Happy New Year to you, I trust you all had a peaceful Christmas. Mine was incredibly busy, but all rather enjoyable.

Hopefully you are all now fully recharged and ready to start a whole new year of nature watching.

I don’t make New Year’s...

Join our reserves across Wales this weekend to celebrate Big Garden Birdwatch.

The biggest wildlife survey in the world - Big Garden Birdwatch - has been running for 35 years, and to celebrate this milestone RSPB South Stack, RSPB Conwy and RSPB Lake...

 If you haven’t made a New Year’s resolution yet, then let us help you...become a community fundraising volunteer in the area with RSPB Cymru. Volunteering can be an extremely satisfying way for people to spend some of their free time and is a great way...

It’s funny how sometimes something that, to start with, makes you feel cut off and isolated can actually open your eyes and make you see the bigger picture.

 I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your notice that over the past few weeks the weather has been...