The UK has lost up to 90% of its seagrass meadows in the past century, which has had negative consequences for the health and resilience of our coastal systems. In 2019, Swansea University, the charity Project Seagrass and WWF-UK formed a collaboration to begin to restore some of what we have lost. Concurrently, over the last six years Swansea University has been leading trials across Wales to develop appropriate methods for seagrass restoration. Here in North Wales, we've now teamed up with the partnership to start exploring how we can bring this exciting project to North Wales. Funding secured from the National Lottery Heritage Fund allows us to deliver a socially agreeable and ecologically sound programme of restoration and we want you to get involved.

Since 2020, our tree nurseries at Aberduna, near Mold, and Gwaith Powdwr, near Penrhyndeudraeth have, with help from a small team of staff and volunteers, grown from supplying our own projects to supplying customers.

Here you will find information on the collective effort at the North Wales Wildlife Trust to tackle the threat posed by invasive non-native species (invasive species or INNS). This includes several projects focusing on different approaches and different parts of North Wales and beyond.

North Wales Wildlife Trust would love to hear your opinions on how nature makes you feel, and what you think we as a society should (or shouldn’t) be doing to protect it.

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