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