ITV Wales has aired some remarkable stories and wonderful scenery along Wales and England’s breathtaking borderlands. Presenter Sean Fletcher has been exploring the 177-mile Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail, celebrating the landscape and the people who live there. Wonders of the Border has three episodes remaining.  The next episode is being aired this evening on ITV Cymru Wales from 7:30pm. The series provides travel inspiration for those planning a domestic adventure as we begin to emerge from lockdown. It will…

Caught in a Cardiff tree, the crow was rescued by RSPCA and South Wales Fire & Rescue Service but the bird didn’t survive The RSPCA has issued a warning about the lethal effects of litter on Wales’s wildlife, after a crow perished after becoming entangled in string and getting trapped high up in a tree. The animal charity was called to an address in Heath, Cardiff on Tuesday (23 March) after a local resident reported the crow hanging by its…

    The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales along with The Wildlife Trusts are delighted to join forces with some of the UK’s well know TV stars in a new Wildlife Trust film trailer. Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Fry, Catherine Tate, Alison Steadman and Asim Chaudhry have backed a new campaign from The Wildlife Trusts that calls for nature’s recovery in Wales and the UK. The broadcaster and conservationist, and actors have starring roles in a new Wind…

(Photo Credit: The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) FARMER and conservationist Terry Mills hosted a bird count at his farm in Cruglas, near Swyddffynon in Ceredigion to mark the start of this year’s Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC). As well as providing valuable information on wildlife in the Welsh countryside, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust-led count highlights farmers’ fantastic efforts to reverse the decline in farmland birds. Cruglas boasted an impressive 30 species on the day, including several in serious…

  With the launch of Iceland’s eye-opening advert which focuses on the use of palm oil in everyday products and the extremely severe and harmful impact that this is having on rainforests and the animals that live within them, particularly Orangutans, The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales is taking a look at the products and ingredients that we use and making an effort to source alternatives. Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil that can be…

An overview of current research in the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary conducted by the Danau Girang Field Centre, eastern Sabah, Borneo – Tuesday 16th October 7:30 pm This is a return to a topic we last heard about from Dr Goossens in 2011. During the past ten years, students working at DGFC have helped develop research programmes on several flagship species, including Bornean elephant, sun bear, Sunda clouded leopard, Sunda pangolin, Bornean bearded pig, proboscis monkey, slow loris, and reticulated python….

Chris Packham’s Bioblitz Campaign is coming to The Wildlife Trust’s Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre and Cae Lynden Nature Reserve Highlighting the State of Our Nation’s Wildlife.             The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales is delighted to say that TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham will be visiting our Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre in New Quay and Cae Lynden in Brecknock. His visit will be part of the first independent audit of…

September to October 2017 The Ocean Film Festival World Tour is returning to the UK this autumn, bringing an evening of inspirational and jaw-dropping ocean films to almost 30 venues across Britain and Northern Ireland in September and October. The event, which originates in Australia, features a brand-new selection of the world’s best ocean-themed short films, with action and spell-binding footage from both above and below the water’s surface. The 2017 film programme sees intrepid freedivers explore haunting shipwrecks, nomadic…

The Wildlife Trust debuts first ever Pop-Up Wildlife Garden in the Capital Did you know that there is more space managed as garden in the UK than all nature reserves put together? Imagine what a difference we could make if everyone did something for wildlife in their gardens. The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales are reaching out to Cardiff residents to encourage people to garden with wildlife in mind. The Wildlife Trust’s ‘My Wild Cardiff’ project, funded with…

    A high-tech mission to uncover the secrets of our seas has revealed a ‘hotspot’ for marine wildlife off the southern coast of Wales.   The mission saw an unmanned underwater ‘glider’ travel to an area around 50 miles to the south west of Wales called the Celtic Deep, which is a haven for wildlife but also an extremely busy shipping route and fishing ground. The glider travelled 600km in 30 days, undertaking nearly 3000 dives from the sea…