We hope that as many of you as are able will join us at 7.30pm on Wednesday night for our next meeting and event. A reminder of who will be joining us: We will be hearing from 3 speakers on … Continue reading
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Save the date: next CMG Online Meeting – 23 March at 7.30pm
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Our next online meeting will be on Wednesday 23rd March at 7.30pm, when we’ll hear from Rhys Evans of Nature Friendly Farming Network, Richard Smith of Butterfly Conservation, and Malcolm Edwards of Gwenlais Coppice and Charcoal. The Nature Friendly Farming Network … Continue reading
Another event – more notice this time. 15 March 2022 – The (Online) Beautiful Burial Ground Conference.
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Caring for God’s Acre invite you to their Online Conference: Join us for an inspiring day discovering how to transform burial grounds into havens for people, wildlife and heritage.Hear from experts in the field and attend workshops of your choice.One … Continue reading
Short notice (sorry) – 7.30 till 9.00 tonight! Managing Hedgerows for wildlife
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Event from Moor Meadows group in Devon: Native hedgerows can play a major role in helping nature recovery and mitigating climate change. The government wants the post-Brexit agricultural subsidy system to encourage farmers and landowners to better maintain hedges to … Continue reading
Notice of webinar: Grassland and Carbon Sequestration – 2 March 2022 at 7pm
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Plantlife are hosting this webinar as part of their Meadow Makers Project. Its full title is Grassland Carbon: restoration, creation and management practices that affect carbon sequestration in grasslands. There will be two presentations from specialists who will share the … Continue reading
Floodplain meadows talk – and follow up
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The two speakers from last night’s meeting would like to make their email addresses available to interested landowners who might want them to go and take a look at their potential floodplain meadow sites. They are: Leila Thornton: leila.thornton@naturalresourceswales.gov.ukCaroline O’Rourke: caroline.orourke@open.ac.uk and … Continue reading
Next CMG Online meeting – Thursday 10 February at 7.30pm
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Our next CMG meeting is Thursday 10th February at 7:30pm. We’ll be hearing about, and discussing, floodplain meadows, and we’re very fortunate to have Leila Thornton from Natural Resources Wales as our guest speaker. Floodplain meadows generate a sustainable and … Continue reading
Training on Bumblebee id and a Bruce Langridge podcast.
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust will be running a range of training activities throughout Wales and online. Keep an eye out for details https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/events-calendar/?utm_source=Skills+for+Bees%3A+Cymru+project&utm_campaign=0a2a03dbdb-General+e-news+-+GDPR+list_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5796f2678e-0a2a03dbdb-30144524 Bruce Langridge is interviewing people connected with the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. On 13 January he chatted … Continue reading
Not meadows – but Interesting – Wildlife Trust’s Cardiff Local Group: Trees and Climate Change – Can we plant our way out of trouble?
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| Trees, wildlife and storing carbon are subjects close to the hearts of CMG members: The next online meeting of the WTSWW Cardiff Local group – Monday 31 January 2022 – 7.30 – 9pm – online. Professor Mary Gagen of Swansea University will consider the role of trees in combating climate change. Mary writes “Trees are wonderful things and, when it comes to ‘green infrastructure’, they are the top trump card being simultaneously good for wildlife, good for storing carbon and good for our well-being. As we face the climate and nature emergencies there has never been more interest in trees as a solution – we can plant trees now, and we know they do a lot of good for us and for the planet. But can we plant our way out of trouble? In this talk I will take a look at the ecosystem and climate services trees offer and discuss what tree planting programmes, can, and cannot, achieve.” This online meeting is available by clicking on the following link: https://youtu.be/lWakLFu7MzM (Hosted by the Bridgend Local Group of the Wildlife Trust) |
Very good Plantlife webinars on meadow creation and monitoring
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Plantlife Cymru recently had an excellent series of webinars on meadow creation and monitoring. They covered how to start off a meadow both on a small scale in an average garden, and on a large field scale, and the various … Continue reading
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