Urgent Request from Flat Holm

Tonight (Wednesday 19th September we heard about the following request 

The historic Flat Holm island is being reviewed by Cardiff Council and they want to hear what YOU have to say about it.

The Council want to hear from the public about their views and experiences of Flat Holm Island.

Cardiff’s Economy and Culture Scrutiny Committee will be investigating the way Flat Holm Island is run and is inviting the public to have their say.

“If you have a view please email (by Thursday 20th September)
scrutinyviewpoints@cardiff.gov.uk and your comments will be considered as a part of the investigations.”
Councillor Craig Williams, Chair of the Economy and Culture Scrutiny Committee

Thank you

New Field meeting Announced

An additional field meeting has been added to the programme sent to members 

This is listed on the Programme on this blog, and oon the main society website which is shown to the right of this post

The New meeting is Saturday 8th Jun which is a full day meeting at  Taff Fechan, Merthyr and is a joint trip with WTSWW

Regards
Andy

Update on Orchards

We have received an update from the Welsh Traditional Orchards Inventory project

They have now finished locating and mapping all of the potential orchards, apart from a few areas of Ceredigion still to be done in the next couple of weeks. Below is a table showing the number they have found in each county, along with the number and percentage allocated so far to volunteer surveyors for ground-truthing. As you can see in some areas they are still in need of volunteers

Early next year the inventory will be fully available to all via CCW. PTES will also produce county summaries with key statistics such as the remaining area of traditional orchards and the condition these are in. This should be useful for a wide-range of conservation and heritage projects, will produce baseline data for BAPs and hopefully help secure future funding for this important habitat.

County	Potential orchards	No. allocated	% allocated
Blaenau Gwent	6	6	100.0
Bridgend	105	41	39.0
Caerphilly	95	94	98.9
Cardiff	57	48	84.2
Carmarthenshire	811	206	25.4
Ceredigion*	374	50	13.4
Conwy	222	42	18.9
Denbighshire	601	45	7.5
Flintshire	762	149	19.6
Gwynedd	412	81	19.7
Isle of Anglesey	355	53	14.9
Merthyr Tydfil	18	5	27.8
Monmouthshire	975	388	39.8
Neath Port Talbot	106	31	29.2
Newport	123	115	93.5
Pembrokeshire	119	14	11.8
Powys	957	235	24.6
Rhondda Cynon Taff	124	86	69.4
Swansea	267	230	86.1
Torfaen	33	30	90.9
Vale of Glamorgan	368	114	31.0
Wrexham	310	148	47.7

You can contact PTES via www.ptes.org if you are able to help them

Out of the Woods 2012

The Out of the Woods Festival 2012 organised by Cardiff Council in Bute Park turned out to be a nice day as hoped and Cardiff Naturalists were proud to be a part of creating enjoyment for adults and children alike

We had an informative display with information on the things that have been seen in the parks, with some specimens of common plants collected to be able to explain what they were to people

We also had books for sale and pictures of local plants, animals and scenery for people to admire

Mike Dean and Danii Roberts manning the CNS stall at the out of the Woods festival