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Dear Senedd Member: make nature restoration a priority in the Agriculture Bill.
Use your voice for nature in Eryri and across Wales
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Taking parking out of the Park
We’re proud to support the new developments in sustainable transport that are emerging from partnerships in and around the National Park.
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Shaping the Wild: Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm By David Elias
Shaping the Wild is an important book. For those who care about nature in Eryri – where it comes from and where it is going – it is perhaps the most important work in English to date.
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The Snowdonia Society’s 2023 photo competition
We’ve launched our sixth annual photo competition, inviting keen photographers to submit their favourite image of Snowdonia by the closing date of Monday 26 June 2023.
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Plant Atlas 2020: a citizen science triumph that documents a biodiversity disaster
Wednesday 8 March saw the national launch of the new Plant Atlas 2020, a landmark work describing the present distribution of all the flowering plants and ferns and clubmosses in the British Isles.
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Uncovering hidden history
The Carneddau mountain range is one of the most stunning and historically rich landscapes in the Snowdonia National Park. The Snowdonia Society has been actively trying to preserve and protect the archaeology and wildlife that make this landscape so special through its involvement with the Carneddau Landscape Partnership project.
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Working with the RSPB’s Curlew LIFE project
The curlew, once a common sight throughout our wetlands and farmlands, has been declining for decades, placing it firmly on the ever growing UK red list. Find out what’s being done in Eryri to help.
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C’mon Wales! – time to shape a future of nature-rich farmed landscapes
The Senedd is about to debate the Agriculture Bill. Will they take this chance to shape a future for farming that has nature recovery embedded in it?
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust: Call for volunteers
Would you like to learn more about bumblebees and how to identify different species? Would you like to help discover and monitor how bumblebee populations are doing in Eryri and indeed across North Wales?
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Conservationists of the future
A big thank you to Myddelton College and Coleg Menai pupils who have been working with us over the winter months throughout Eryri.
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Job Opportunity: Engagement Assistant
New to Nature is an exciting programme of paid work placements in nature-focused roles. We’re particularly interested in receiving applications from young people (aged 18-25) who are from ethnically diverse backgrounds, who are living with a disability or are from low-income households.
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Outdoor lives – Director John Harold and Mike Raine in conversation
Listen in to our Director John Harold talking with author, mountaineering instructor, and Snowdonia expert Mike Raine about our work in a recent episode of Mike’s ‘Outdoor Lives’ podcast.
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2022 – another busy year!
Heres a snapshot of what staff and volunteers have been up to over the last 12 months
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Going underground in Eryri
National Grid’s Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project in the Eryri National Park aims to transform the views across the Dwyryd Estuary between Penrhyndeudraeth and Llandecwyn by removing existing overhead electricity line and replacing it with electricity cables buried in a new tunnel underground.
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Care for Snowdonia – looking back at a busy summer
Every weekend throughout the summer volunteers have been out in all weathers picking up litter, giving advice to visitors, answering questions, and being a friendly presence in the mountains. Now that a busy summer is over, we can take stock of what has been achieved.
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Report sheds light on how wildlife is impacted by visitor numbers in North West Wales
In spring 2020, a number of popular sites across North Wales were closed to the public or experienced greatly reduced visitation due to nation-wide lockdown. To evaluate how wildlife was responding a series of biodiversity surveys by the environmentalist Ben Porter were commissioned in June 2020.
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Revealing hidden history
The remains of ancient settlements are scattered all over the Carneddau. However, vegetation growth can undermine these archaeological structures, as well as obscure their existence.
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Small Nation: Big Landscapes Conference
Seventy delegates came together in October for our Small Nation: Big Landscapes conference at Plas y Brenin. For all of us here at Cymdeithas Eryri – staff, trustees, members and volunteers – it was an honour to bring together such experience, knowledge and enthusiasm.
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Have your say! Snowdonia National Park Authority is consulting on Management Plans for 14 Conservation Areas within the National Park
If this is where you live or somewhere you know well, this is your chance to contribute to the discussion. What would make these Conservation Areas fit for the 21st century?
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Small Nation, Big Landscapes: Conference 2022
Booking closes at midday on Thursday 29th September.
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There is a 25% discount on day passes available for Snowdonia Society members.