What wildlife is living in your local patch – be that your garden, favourite nature reserve, local park, or whatever ‘your patch’ means to you? How is your patch contributing to the wider biodiversity of your area? What contribution could it potentially make? These are the kind of questions we would like to get people thinking about in the ‘Your Wild Patch’ project, which aims to both build natural history and recording skills in the community, and to help people to use those skills to record the wildlife on their local patch – or further afield! This project is funded by Welsh Government’s Local Places for Nature biodiversity grant scheme, via our region’s Local Nature Partnerships, who we are working closely with on the project.
West Wales Wild Watch
- West Wales Wild WatchAs part of the project we will be running regular West Wales Wild Watch sessions which will move around different communities of Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. These sessions will provide opportunities to explore local habitats together, record the species we find and have fun looking at nature in relaxed, practical sessions. Training on recording and species identification will also be provided. Findings from sessions will be shared on West Wales Biological Recording | Facebook Page.
- Ceredigion
WWBIC West Wales Wild Watch – Cered – October
WWBIC West Wales Wild Watch – Ceredigion – November
Your wild patch – Llanrhystud 7th December
Your wild patch – Cellan, Lampeter 14th December
Contact: carys@westwalesbiodiversity.org.uk
- Carmarthenshire
WWBIC West Wales Wild Watch – Carms – Sept-Oct
WWBIC West Wales Wild Watch – Carms – November
Contact: yusef@westwalesbiodiversity.org.uk
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- Pembrokeshire
WWBIC West Wales Wild Watch – Pembs – Sept-Oct
WWBIC West Wales Wild Watch – Pembs – November.
Contact: yusef@westwalesbiodiversity.org.uk
Also updated regularly on our events calendar here
Resources
- 1km Square Recording Summary
These recording summaries show the records for any 1km square in the region. The resource highlights the number of species recorded per taxonomic group, the number of records of each group and the years the records were made.
The aim of these summaries is to give a guide to what needs to be recorded in a particular area.
. - Starter species lists
