Wildife and Bird Watching in Glamorgan, South Wales & Monmouthshire
These maps are intended as a guideline only; you must check the exact location of the reserve yourself. Wildlife Extra assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or usefulness of the information on this website.
- Coed Y Cerrig
- Cwm Clydach RSPB
- Fiddlers Elbow
- Forest Farm Nature Reserve
- Gelli-Hir Woods
- Howardian Local Nature Reserve
- Kenfig National Nature Reserve
- Lady Park Wood
- Newport Wetlands Nature Reserve
- Parc Slip Nature Park
- Pentwyn Farm Nature Reserve
- Pwll-y-Wrach Nature Reserve
- Whiteford Burrows National Nature Reserve
Recent Glamorgan, South Wales & Monmouthshire news
- Armed police crackdown on poachers - In Wales
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Severn Barrage abandoned
- MPs say that the Severn Barrage is ‘A disaster waiting to happen for wildlife and fisheries’
- Severn Barrage could bring floods, destroy wildlife and livelihoods
- Large numbers of Common & Bottlenose dolphins seen off Wales
- Oystercatchers dyed yellow to help tracking
- Severn Estuary tidal reef cheaper and more efficient than barrage
More Glamorgan, South Wales & Monmouthshire news
- Blue Marlin found on Welsh beach.
- New species of ‘ghost’ slug discovered in Wales
- Swordfish found on South Wales Beach
- Peregrines Move into Central Cardiff
- Otter spotted at Newport city centre redevelopment site
- European Roller seen in Wales
- Vestal moth
- Oystercatchers dyed yellow – Help track their movements.
Severn Barrage abandonedA barrage like the one proposed between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare would not only destroy huge areas of estuary marsh and mudflats used by 69,000 birds each winter and block the migration routes of countless fish, but, as confirmed by this report, it would dramatically increase risk of flooding to residential properties.
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Remarkably, just a few weeks after a Swordfish was found on a beach in South Wales, a Blue Marlin has washed up onto another Welsh beach.
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The bizarre subterranean Ghost slug has been named Selenochlamys ysbryda by experts at National Museum Cardiff, Wales.
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A rare and endangered swordfish has been discovered dead on a South Wales beach.
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