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Waun Las National Nature Reserve
Waun Las National Nature Reserve, part of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, lies adjacent to the north and east side of the formal Garden area. Occupying over 150 acres of Carmarthenshire countryside, it has been managed as an organic farm for the past 10 years. It contains a wide range of valuable habitats including purple moor grass and rush pasture, wet woodland and lowland meadows - priorities for conservation in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Wildlife highlights:
- over 100 types of butterfly and moth
- hundreds of native plant species
- more than 56 varieties of birds, such as buzzard, red kite, barn owl.
- thousands of frogs, toads and palmate newts
- common lizards, grass snakes and slow worms
- twenty species of mammal, including badgers and dormice.
Location and how to get there: The National Botanic Garden of Wales is situated 10 mins from the M4 and ¼ mile from the A48 in Carmarthenshire, South West Wales, midway between Cross Hands and Carmarthen.
From 30 May to 3rd Oct 2010, Sundays and Bank Holidays only, the B10 bus (part of the Beacons Service) connects Carmarthen and Brecon with the Garden. B10 timetable. The regular service from Carmarthen is the 166 bus connecting Carmarthen Train Station, Cross Hands, Pontyberem and various other places to National Botanic Gardens and drops off within the Gardens car park.
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