Volunteering with Gwent Wildlife Trust
Thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery for enabling our volunteers to widen their knowledge of ways to help us to restore nature in Gwent, by providing them with skills and training in…
Thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery for enabling our volunteers to widen their knowledge of ways to help us to restore nature in Gwent, by providing them with skills and training in…
Emma balances her digital working life with a love of wildlife and her role as a Watch Group leader. Helping children appreciate the great outdoors, opening up a new world of discovery and shaping…
Olive the puppy leads Lewis and Laura on a great escape from city life.
Sphagnum mosses carpet the ground with colour on our marshes, heaths and moors. They play a vital role in the creation of peat bogs: by storing water in their spongy forms, they prevent the decay…
Michelle was diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of 2014. After undergoing a life-saving operation and an intensive chemotherapy course, she is on the road to recovery.
Wildlife…
Wildlife-rich reens and ditches lined by ancient willow pollards and criss-cross expansive fields, supporting a fabulous range of plant, insect and bird life as well as the Gwent Levels'…
Hugh Gregory is a 61-year-old IT contractor. For the past 30 years he has been a carer for his wife Denise who suffers from chronic depression and physical disabilities. Caring for anyone is hard…
Passionate about the oceans and the diverse life that they hold, Bex is lucky enough to be able to teach scuba diving to university students at Plymouth University. This provides her with the…
Recently, even though we were locked down at home, we went on safari. Not to Africa, of course, just in our garden, doing an audit known as a bioblitz of the creatures living in it.
Why not…
On Skomer Island, Grace can set her own trends and live a life of adventure, from creating fashionable jewellery out of daisies to exploring the wild landscape.
Graham has been mad about butterflies all his life. He volunteers for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and records them on a local nature reserve as well as nationally.
Anne loves nothing more than visiting a woodland at any time of year to immerse herself in the natural sounds and to get away from the noises of every day life.