Discovering a winter rockpool
At first glance a beach in the middle of winter seems like a bleak, lifeless environment. However, when you look closer you will realise that life still thrives despite freezing air and stormy…
Chwilio
Speckled wood butterfly - Vicky Nall
Chwilio
Shoresearch Cymru rocky shore surveys November 2021
Now we’re properly into winter, we’re expecting to see less living on shore, especially in terms of some algae. This month we tried a different approach with our volunteers and were rewarded…
Our Leatherbacks/Crwbanod môr cefn-lledr ni
Every summer our seas welcome marine turtles which come in after their favourite food – jellyfish. We’ve had all but one of the seven marine turtle species appear in UK waters.
Bell heather
Bell heather is our most familiar heather. In summer, it carpets our heaths, woods and coasts with purple-pink flowers that attract all kinds of nectar-loving insects.
My calling
Living in the rocky uplands of mid Wales, Emma regularly walks her farm checking not only on the livestock but seeing the seasonal changes in the wildlife and landscape too. The upland habitats of…
Welcoming our Marine Futures Interns!
Welcome to a new series of blogs from our Living Seas Team. Written by our Marine Futures Interns we'll be keeping you up to date with what they've been up to during their time in their…
Lowland dry acid grassland
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
Marchwiel Marsh is restored!
Earlier in 2020 the Wrexham Industrial Estate Living Landscape project transformed a marsh that had dried up at Marchwiel, on the outskirts of the estate.
Plastoff 2019
On the 19th January 2019 our Living Seas Wales and Our Wild Coast Projects joined forces to remove and recycle as much plastic as possible from Aberffraw to Rhosneigr. Over a hundred people joined…
Rock dove
The wild rock dove is the ancestor to what is probably our most familiar bird - the feral pigeon, which is often found in large numbers in our towns and cities.
Call for artists for Wales-wide exhibition
In collaboration with Disability Arts Cymru (DAC), we are pleased to announce an artist commission as part of our Corsydd Calon Môn Living Landscapes project.
Arrowhead
Arrowhead is an aquatic plant of shallow water and slow-moving waterways. In bloom over summer, it displays small, white flowers, but it is the arrow-shaped leaves that are most distinctive.