Conservation of Aberffraw sand dunes

Aberffraw is located on the South-west coast of Anglesey, North Wales.  It is named after the village and consists of a dune slack system!

Beavers in Bamff, Perthshire in Scotland

Bamff is a private beaver collection in Perthshire, Scotland. Wood was on the menu but had the beavers slipped out the back door and eluded us?

Macrophytes of the Malltraeth marsh and a few starling too!

Bangor universities botanic garden at Treborth was the scene for a day of getting to grips with wetland biodiversity with a wetland plant ID course. A visit to Malltraeth marsh rounded off the evening!

Borth bog, a real hair raiser!

Borth Bog or Cors Fochno in Welsh is one if the most well preserved examples of a raised Bog in Wales!

Tale of the two peatlands! Cord Erddreiniog and Migneint

A return trip to Cors Erddreiniog, eastern Anglesey took us to look at the some of the important management processes in place. It also took us to the Migneint blanket bog, an area of peatland stretching over the counties of Gwynedd and Conwy in North West Wales.

Cors Geirch: Fen on the LLyn

The third and final day of the LIFE conference took us on a meandering bus trip to the sleepy Llyn peninsular fen site Cors Geirch! 

Cors Bodeilio on the fly!

Cors Bodeilio another of the internationally important valley mire fen in the Anglesey fen SAC  and Ramsar complex. The fen is famed for elusive and aptly named fly orchid. 

Horses for Corsydd at Cors Erddreiniog

The second day of the Anglesey and Llyn fens LIFE conference saw a visit to another internationally important fen in East Anglesey! The story of the fen is a quite a contrast to that of the fen in my last Blog!

A Fentastic day out!

The first day of the Anglesey and Llyn fens LIFE conference saw a group of newly acquainted Wetland Science MSc students visit Cors Goch on their inaugural field trip...before I begin, let me get you acquainted with some interesting Wetland facts!