Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru

Country Focus - 15/02/2026 - BBC Sounds Your weekly programme for people working and living in rural Wales.

We were very glad to welcome Country Focus for BBC Wales to our Llwyndewi Nature reserve in Carmarthenshire to show all the work we are doing to restore biodiversity onsite. You can listen here from about 14 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Our response to NRW’s State of Natural Resources Report 2025.

Come and hear about our work with water voles, one of our most endangered species in Wales.

Gweithgor cyntaf y flwyddyn gennym ni yn ein Gwarchodfa Natur yn Llwyndewi. Y tro yma ar gyfer yr aderyn preswyl sy’n wynebu’r bygythiad mwyaf yn y DU - Titw'r Helyg. Diolch i'n holl wirfoddolwyr ni ac i bawb sy'n helpu.

Our first work party of the year at our Llwyndewi Nature Reserve. This time for the UK’s most threatened resident bird – the Willow Tit. Thank you to all our volunteers and to all those who are helping.

Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru: Investigative Journalist advertised with CJS Duration: Two-year post with aspirations for permanent position. Full-time: £28,000 Location of Work – Working from home and on location across Wales following story leads. Also, at INCC’s head…

Investigative Journalist with @INCCymru.bsky.social home working with travel to sites across Wales, full-time, two-year post with aspirations for permanent position c-js.uk/4iITYAS

If you're a journalist who wants to help us save Wildlife in Wales, then this is the role for you. More info can be found on our website www.natureconservation.wales/job-opportun...

Sunday Supplement - Prisons, Financing, NRW, COP 30, Nancy Pelosi - BBC Sounds Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

Hear what our CEO Rob Parry had to say about our open letter to the new Natural Resources Wales Chair on
@BBCRadioWales

this morning. Read the letter on our website, link in bio Rob's interview starts at about 25:45

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Head to our website for more info on our letter, or hear Rob tomorrow morning on @bbccymruwales.bsky.social

Some exciting news! #WilderWales

Here is our open letter to the new NRW Chair asking him what he will do to reverse the decline in nature. He says his priority is to ‘position NRW as a national leader in nature recovery’.
We want to hold him and NRW to those words.
Here's our letter: www.natureconservation.wales/news/

One of INCC's priorities is to support early career Nature Conservationists. We employed 4 students to work with us over the summer months. Its been a wonderful experience and thank you so much to Freya, Liv, Matt and Laura.
Read their stories here.
www.natureconservation.wales/news/

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.

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Newyddion Rhagorol. Diolch i'ch holl gefnogaeth chi, rydyn ni'n gallu lansio ein Huned Ymchwiliadau Natur. Rydyn ni wrthi'n recriwtio ar gyfer rôl Swyddog Cyfathrebu i'n helpu ni gydag ymchwiliadau yn y dyfodol. Rhannwch os gwelwch yn dda. Diolch.

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With your support we have been able to achieve so much for wildlife over the past year. We have summarised some of these achievements in our annual Conservation Report – available here. Thank you once again for all your support.
natureconservation.wales/news/

Gyda'ch cefnogaeth chi, rydyn ni wedi gallu cyflawni cymaint dros fywyd gwyllt yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf. Rydyn ni wedi crynhoi rhai o'r cyflawniadau hyn yn ein Hadroddiad Cadwraeth blynyddol – sydd ar gael yma. Diolch yn fawr.
www.natureconservation.wales/news/

Huge congratulations to @wildjustice.bsky.social @cadwceibwr.bsky.social and all involved for helping to safeguard wildlife at Ceibwr Bay. We wrote to NRW in 2024 expressing our concerns about increased disturbance to wildlife and this is what they had to say:
www.natureconservation.wales/news/

Two surveyors in a greater tussock sedge filled fen feature at Cwmparc, Rhondda

Spot the water vole droppings (they’re next to the target)

Very atmospheric (c.f. rainy) day out in the Rhondda doing water vole surveys for Lost Peatlands sites at Mynyndd Ton and then Cwmparc. Great to have @inccymru.bsky.social with us as well for the day. Been a while since I’ve been in the Cwm and it’s fantastic, despite the razor sharp tussock sedge

Newyddion Rhagorol. Diolch i'ch holl gefnogaeth chi, rydyn ni'n gallu lansio ein Huned Ymchwiliadau Natur. Rydyn ni wrthi'n recriwtio ar gyfer rôl Swyddog Cyfathrebu i'n helpu ni gydag ymchwiliadau yn y dyfodol. Rhannwch os gwelwch yn dda. Diolch.

www.natureconservation.wales/job-advert-c...

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...

Aren't Water Voles wonderful. This Water Vole was filmed going about its business on the River Thaw in South Wales. They were reintroduced to the river last year, after a 20 year absence. Surveys this year suggests that the population is doing well and the Water Vole are exploring new habitats.

Another wonderful day at our Llwyndewi Nature Reserve, this time Bracken Bruising to help restore the grassland habitat and to create nesting plots for Nightjar next year. Huge thank you to all the volunteers from Bridgend College Conservation Volunteers. Huge help, as always.

Cattle are back at Llwyndewi Nature Reserve. Wonderful evening spent at the reserve watching these guys settling in to their new home. Cattle and conservation grazing are so important to Welsh Wildlife. Huge thank you to Toby our grazier.

We are very happy to welcome Freya Smith to the INCC Team. Freya will be with us up until October and will be working on our upland Water Vole Project. Freya has volunteered with INCC for a number of years at our nature reserve and our various farm restoration projects.
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Visited Lwyndewi on the weekend to show local landowners and neighbours what we are doing there. Magical place and always happy to share what we are doing. Lots of Orchids in the meadow this year - thanks mainly to new fencing to stop the sheep coming in from the mountain... they always find a way.

Working for wildlife in the the Amman Valley is incredibly rewarding. Working with lots of landowners on different conservation projects. Only 2 occupied Barn Owl boxes yesterday, plus a Tawny. We also saw lots of meadows and flower rich pastures. Its an amazing place. Thanks to Cedwyn and Dafydd.

Our second collaboration with the INCC is a wonderfully evocative story highlighting the protection of endangered water voles in Wales.

Find out more about the project by visiting our website!

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@inccymru.bsky.social #natureconservation #watervole #blender #clothcat

To celebrate the success of our upland Water Vole project, we've produced this wonderful (day in a life) animation with @clothcatstudio.bsky.social. American Mink are still the biggest threat Water Voles face. Please help us fight for our remaining Water Voles. bit.ly/4eymyTy
Thank you & pls share.

I ddathlu llwyddiant ein prosiect Llygod Pengrwn y Dŵr yr ucheldir, rydyn ni wedi cynhyrchu'r animeiddiad rhyfeddol yma gyda @clothcatstudio.bsky.social. Minc Americanaidd yw'r bygythiad mwyaf maen nhw'n ei wynebu o hyd. Helpwch ni i frwydro dros ein Llygod Pengrwn y Dŵr sy'n weddill.
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Main flight season (in the pen) was about 3 weeks ago. However, there was actually one lone female in the pen on Monday 23rd June, still laying eggs. There were quite a few freshly emerged caterpillars as well. Its been a strange season for them so far.