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YouTube video by The British Hedgehog Preservation Society Look Before Your Light on Bonfire Night!

🔥 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

I watched it for a while last week. So tiny and so busy!

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#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...

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

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

Thanks, a great memory

Hidden Life of Colliery Spoil: Biodiversity Guided Walk Discover the surprising wildlife of Parc Melin Mynach on a guided walk led by entomologist Liam Olds. Explore how nature has reclaimed this former...

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

It looks great. Well done!

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 Discover the surprising wildlife of Parc Melin Mynach on a guided walk led by entomologist Liam Olds. Explore how nature has reclaimed this former...

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

Making Space for Nature The loss of wildflower-rich grasslands and the wildlife it supports is an issue of public concern. We are committed to tackling climate change and biodiversity loss by making space for nature in the V...

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 🐾

Two photos of volunteers. One image shows a group of volunteers in a forest, the other image shows two volunteers holding up a hand drawn cut out of a recycling bin with the words 'todays headline: recycle your rubbish!' on a screen in the background

Two images of volunteers, one is of a group of volunteers outside the Senedd and the other is of a volunteer being filmed for an interview with Transport for Wales

Two images, one of a group of volunteers with their arms around each others shoulders. The other is a selfie of Innovate Trust Project Officer with a group of volunteers smiling at the camera

Two volunteers sat at a picnic table smiling at the camera

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

Dogs pollute water with pesticides even weeks after flea treatment When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pesticides dangerous to aquatic life for at least a month after the treatment

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

A volunteer holding a red bin bag litter picking at the beach

A volunteer holding plant pots with a wheelbarrow of soil next to them

Two volunteers anchoring a bird box to a tree near the River Thaw

A volunteer sat in a forest of trees and grown out leaves and plants on the floor

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 by Edward Mayer, Swift Conservation Join the Vale Nature Partnership and Edward Mayer from Swift Conservation for an inspiring evening all about Swifts.

📣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: valelnp@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk

Webinar: Introduction to species-rich grasslands and their plants | Vale Nature Join Vale LNP in partnership with Plantlife Cymru to explore the vital role of species-rich grasslands in supporting biodiversity in our free online webinar.

🌼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!

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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...

Grassland fires in Wales: What a way to go Rob Parry Chief Executive Officer Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru & Julian Hughes, Head of Species (Wales), RSPB Cymru If you are at all interested in wildlife, then spring is the season for ...

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

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