Beguiled by blues
Butterfly expert Alan Sumnall offers a thorough guide to one of our most enchanting groups of butterflies – the blues.
Chwilio
Speckled wood butterfly - Vicky Nall
Chwilio
Living Seas LIVE!
This summer, our Living Seas Wales team are heading out on the road! Expect virtual-reality experiences, rockpooling, beachcombing, snorkelling, sea-watching and much more! Find out where to see…
How to build a bird box
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
Nature and a global pandemic
Our intern Sam shares his thoughts on the pandemic, its effects on nature and the way he's been coping with lockdown!
Harbour porpoises and other cetaceans
Nia Jones, our Living Seas Manager introduces some handy tips to viewing cetaceans from North Wales' shores.
A summer of fieldwork, bracken, buddleja, snakes, slow worms and lizards!
In his second blog post, our student placement Lewis writes about the work he’s been involved with in North Wales this summer.
Plast Off! Beach Clean 2025
Saturday 11th January 2025 was our eighth annual Plast Off! Beach Clean event. Find out how it went...
New neighbours for Gors Maen Llwyd!
Our Gors Maen Llwyd Nature Reserve, on the shores of Llyn Brenig, has some exciting new neighbours... a pair of ospreys have nested on a specially built platform in the lake and are the first…
Bangor's COP26 march: Through the lens of a Stand For Nature Wales youth member
Megan Stone, one of our Stand For Nature Wales youth members, describes her first climate march experience and the steps she took to capture these moving photographs.
It's grey seal pupping season
Right now grey seals / morloi llwyd (Halichoerus grypus) will be returning to haul out at sites all along our North Wales coasts for the pupping season.
Feeding garden birds safely
Is it okay to feed our feathered friends? In light of a new evidence review from the RSPB, Tom Hibbert explains the best way to keep birds visiting your garden safe.
Reedbed
Found between water and land, reedbeds are transitional habitats. They can form extensive swamps in lowland floodplains or fringe streams, rivers, ditches, ponds and lakes with a thin feathery…