My laboratory
Nora’s study of bird behaviour explores how small bird communities flock together to ward off larger predators. Nature has many things to teach us and is now widely acknowledged as a key…
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Nature’s Summertime Treats (Part I)
Spring may have sprung behind closed doors this year but summer brings its own seasonal delights to tempt us outdoors. In this series of blogs, we’d like to introduce you to some of nature’s best…
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Gwent Wildlife Trust is a charity dedicated to nurturing and restoring our wildlife, part of a network of Wildlife Trusts across the UK.
Wild strawberry
The Wild strawberry produces miniature, edible versions of the juicy red fruits we so enjoy. Gathering wild food can be fun, but it's best to do it with an expert - come along to a Wildlife…
Monitoring the Pine Martens of Gwent
A few years on from the Pine Marten reintroduction in the Forest of Dean, Gwent Wildlife Trust has been working in partnership with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to set up a monitoring program to…
Wildlife from Home
With many of us having to stay at home, it can be more difficult to maintain a connection with nature. So thanks to a great idea from our friends in BCN Wildlife Trust, we're launching #…
Get started with Mothing
Gwent Wildlife Trust volunteer and supporter Andrew Cormack gives a guide to Mothing.
Enhancing the Wye Valley Woods
A Welsh Government grant award for over £170,000 is helping our Wye Valley Woods conservation and management works.
Gwent Levels solar power station refused.
Gwent Wildlife Trust have welcomed the decision by Welsh Government Minister for Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths, to refuse plans for a mega solar power station on the ancient and protected Levels…
White-tailed Sea Eagle Reintroduction
Gwent Wildlife Trust are working with Eagle Reintroduction Wales, a Durrell Wildlife Programme to return a small breeding population of White-tailed Eagles to Southeast Wales and the Severn Estuary in partnership with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. This reintroduction is licenced by Natural Resources Wales. A licence will be submitted next spring 2025 in hope that we get the greenlight to start a 5-year release scheme in the summer of 2026.
Gone but not forgotten.
We were saddened to hear the news that GWT volunteer Hugh Gregory passed away suddenly in September. In a special blog GWT's Senior Press and Communications Officer Sarah Harris, pays tribute…
Call for Citizen Scientists for Gwent-wide Nightjar Census
Gwent Wildlife Trust and Gwent Ornithological Society are working together to support the threatened Nightjar with a major ecological recording effort in 2025.