🔥 Bonfire Night tip: check your bonfire for wildlife before lighting! 🦔 Hedgehogs may be hiding inside to hibernate. ✅ Build on the day ✅ Check thoroughly ✅ Move the pile if needed Let’s keep our celebrations safe for nature 💛 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B06n... #BonfireNight #HedgehogAwareness #BHPS

#SwyddiGwylltCymru #WalesWildlifeJobs Ecolegydd / Ecologist, Cyngor Bro Morgannwg / Vale of Glamorgan Council Diwrnod cau / closing date 23/09/2025 www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_counc...

Some Excellent News. Thanks to all your support we are able to launch our Nature Investigations Unit. We are currently recruiting for the role of Comms Officer to help us with future investigations. Please Share. Thank you. www.natureconservation.wales/job-advert-c...

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡 At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image. Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work. More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV... #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

It's #WalesNatureWeek 🎉 Join @liamolds on a guided walk at Parc Melin Mynach, Gorseinon, and discover how nature has reclaimed this former colliery site. Friday 11th July 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM For booking, visit www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

We have TWO recommended events this week! This Saturday SEWBReC will be at GoWild! in Parc Bryn Bach AND at Festival of Nature at St Fagans Musuem. Full details for these and lots of other events can be found on our website as everyone celebrates #WalesNatureWeek: www.sewbrec.org.uk/diaryevents

Lovely morning at Dow Silicates Cadoxton Ponds reserve. Marsh, CS, Pyramidal and Bee Orchids. Volucella pellucens and lots of happy Red-tailed Bumblebees!

Hidden Life of Colliery Spoil: Biodiversity Guided Walk (FREE) Discover the surprising wildlife of Parc Melin Mynach, Gorseinon, on a guided walk led by entomologist Liam Olds. Explore how nature has reclaimed this former colliery site. Friday 11th July 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

We're pleased to provide new signage to inform visitors about the way grassland is being managed for biodiversity through #MakingSpaceforNature Read more: bit.ly/VOGMeadow Funded by @welshgovernment.bsky.social #LocalPlacesforNature #ValeNature #ItsforThem @lnpcymru.bsky.social 📷(c) Richard Parry

🐝Making Space for Nature🐾 Well done to Friends of the Kymin for their recognition in boosting #biodiversity across the site 👏 Through a change in grassland management they have welcomed the return of native wildflowers to support and encourage wildlife www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/2523117...

We also had the chance to explore Rhoose Point and witness the stunning orchid display 🌸 - an example of how our recent habitat management including INNS removal are making space for nature to thrive #ValeNature #LocalPlacesforNature @lnpcymru.bsky.social

Thanks to our members for joining the quarterly Vale LNP partnership meeting, it was inspiring to hear about the fantastic work happening across the Vale by our dedicated partners! Special thanks to Alice @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social for an inspiring talk on the Eastern Vale Water Vole Project 🐾

What an incredible Volunteering Week! 🌟 Huge thanks to all who celebrated our amazing volunteers at Innovate Trust. Want to get involved? Check out our opportunities: bit.ly/4kT6Ynm or call 02920 382151. #VolunteersWeek #WythnosGwirfoddolwyr

If your dog will jump in the nearest river, pond or lake given half a chance, don't use spot-on treatments for fleas and ticks, say researchers.

Sunny, windy and fun checking out White Farm meadow in Barry today. Hard going through very lush meadow. Highlight a couple of Spiny Restharrows to add to VOG records for this endangered plant @valelnp.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Did you know the River Thaw was once wider and teeming with wildlife? 🌿 Our Restore the Thaw project aims to revitalize and boost this habitat! Huge thanks to Dwr Cymru for funding this project! #WorldEnvironmentDay #Biodiversity #VolunteersWeek

This project is a collaboration between @valelnp.bsky.social, Vale of Glamorgan Council, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, Swift Conservation and @glamorganbirdclub.bsky.social, and is funded by @welshgovernment.bsky.social Local Places for Nature Scheme

📣Swift Talk & Walk – Tue 10 June, 7–9PM 📣 Join @valelnp.bsky.social and Edward Mayer from Swift Conservation for a talk at Romilly Bowls Club & guided walk to the new Swift Tower at the Knap. Learn how to help these amazing birds! Book your Free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swift-talk...

🐝Become a Meadow Monitor! Join a community of volunteers working to conserve wildflower meadows in the Vale Recieve free online and in-person training in partnership with @plantlifeuk.bsky.social to help survey and monitor green spaces for biodiversity Contact: [email protected]

🌼Webinar: Introduction to species-rich grasslands and their plants Thursday 26 June, 18:30 Join Vale LNP in partnership with @plantlifeuk.bsky.social to explore the vital role of species-rich grasslands in supporting biodiversity in our free online webinar Book: www.valenature.org/event-detail...

Various Orchids around the Vale, Porthkerry, Rhoose, Pencoedtre, Birch Grove NR.

🌊 Great to join hundreds of volunteers to help remove up to 13,000 tyres from the River Ogmore! Led by A Peace of Nature #Ogmoreriverclean 🦗 If you are heading there today join the hunt for an #OilBeetle? Record it here: irecord.org.uk/external/oil... #OgmoreRiverClean #ValeNature #LNPCymru

True service tree / Cerddinen Morgannwg - the service tree of Glamorgan (Sorbus domestica) on the breezy cliff top above the Bristol Channel / Môr Hafren. #sorbusdomestica #highupplants

Lovely morning spent with Porthkerry Wildlife Group at Porthkerry Country Park, Barry. A personal highlight was seeing this Red-girdled Mining Bee (Andrena labiata) - a species I rarely see in Wales!

Premier. Wildlife in Wales needs us more than ever. INCC are aiming to create a Nature Investigations team for Wales so that we can fight for wildlife and hold decision makers to account. Please donate if you can and please share the video far and wide. Thanks. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-the-w...

Thank you for all the comments regarding our animation. Its sometimes hard to get across how much wildlife needs our help, and how little is being done by government. Please keep sharing and reposting the animation, and if you can donate, please do. Thank you. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-the-w...

The Welsh Government’s Heather & Grass Burning Code and protocols need reviewing urgently to avoid fires being lit in places of high nature value, or when there is a risk of losing control of burns - Wales is badly lagging behind! @waleslink.bsky.social nation.cymru/opinion/gras...

Fantastic work by INCC. Please, please, please support their Crowdfunder appeal so we can have more powerful action like this to protect and save Welsh nature 🙏

We did it! 1,327 amazing volunteers broke the Guinness world record for largest ever group litter pick last week. Huge congratulations and thanks you to everyone who got involved, cleaning the River Taf, from Brecon Beacons to Cardiff Bay. Fantastic! #TNLComFundWales #SustainableSteps #TaffTidy

2yrs in and we've finally got NRW to use their own powers to manage a SSSI in South Wales. A grassland that hasn't been managed for 18yrs. Our Investigations Unit will do more of this work. NRW & WG need to know that they can't keep getting away with it. Help - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-the-w...

+ Imagine being the fastest declining mammal in the UK of all time. + Imagine losing around 70% of your population every winter. + And then, imagine what it must be like to survive that winter only to get your entire habitat and home burnt to a crisp.

Stop the War on Nature Please help us raise the funds to create a Nature Investigations Unit for Wales. The unit will expose and challenge the actions and inactions of government where nature is concerned. Please share throughout your communities. Thank you. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-the-w...

🌍🐾 Happy #WorldWildlifeDay 2025! 🐾🌍 This year’s theme, "Wildlife Conservation Finance: Investing in People & Planet," highlights the need to fund conservation & support communities protecting nature. 🌱💚 Invest in nature, invest in our future! 🌿 #WWD2025 #InvestInNature

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Goldilocks Buttercups already coming up in Cwm Talwg Woodlands, Barry. Soth Wales

For anyone starting out in ecology in Wales, @naturambyth.bsky.social has 3 traineeships open for applications at the moment. See details through the post below.

Not one, but two new greater mouse-eared bat have been found www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01...

Some great news for our pollinators!

A good New Year Plant Hunt at Porthkerry today. 15 plants in flower found in a couple of hours @bsbibotany.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the programme for the Gwent-Glamorgan Recorders' Forum 2025, taking place at Llanhilleth Miners Institute in #Abertillery on Saturday 8th February. Open to all with an interest in Welsh wildlife, book your free space here: ggrf25.eventbrite.co.uk

Good to see our old one eyed male Badger back at Porthkerry looking for Crab Apples (female has eaten most already) He looked unwell last time we saw him in 2023 so good to see him looking fit.

A few from Dyffryn GardensNT for @annebell.bsky.social

The legacy of Lucy, the ‘Australopithecus’ that changed our idea of human evolution 50 years ago english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Fungi a bit hard to find but some lovely Waxcaps from Porthkerry CP

A couple of recent pics from Porthkerry CP, Pencoedtre & Hensol

We look forward to you joining us on our journey! #brownfields #Ecology #wildlife #nature #Wales #UK #collieryspoil #mining #coal #invertebrates #insects #biodiversity #conservation

✍🏻 Nearly at the 10 000 target. Please sign to ensure species saving swift bricks are installed Bron a chyrraedd y targed o 10 000 o enwau. Plis arwyddwch petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...