Black Brook Pastures Site of Special Scientific Interest

Lousewort

Wales’ special Sites for Wildlife under threat from the government body designed to protect them INCC believes that Natural Resources Wales (NRW) may have acted unlawfully when failing to object to a development proposal in Mid Wales. The proposed development would have destroyed important grassland habitat and part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest […]

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Update on Biodiversity inclusion in NRW’s remit

Painted Lady by Sorcha Lewis

Our petition on the NRW Biodiversity Remit is being debated tomorrow (17.11.2020) at the Welsh Parliament’s Petition Committee. You can view the agenda here along with our latest representation to the committee. You can also watch the debate live tomorrow on Senedd TV. In other news, our marsh fritillary population restoration project will be collecting caterpillars for rearing […]

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Changing NRW’s remit to deliver for biodiversity

Image of anenomes in Wales

Since NRW’s inauguration seven years ago, there has been a steady and noticeable deterioration in Wales’ delivery toward biodiversity and nature conservation. Wales has been described as one of the most nature depleted areas of the world. Many of its native plant and animal species having already become extinct. A great number of the species […]

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Biodiversity Remit for Natural Resources Wales

slow worm by Sorcha Lewis

An update of our progress toward the Welsh Parliament (formerly National Assembly for Wales (NAW)) petition – Biodiversity Remit for Natural Resources Wales (NRW). As you might be aware, the petition was formerly handed over to the NAW in February this year. Since then, the Petitions Committee, which is made up of several Members of […]

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Add Biodiversity to NRW’s remit – update

Rabbit in campion Sorcha Lewis

Our Petition to the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to explicitly include ‘Biodiversity’ when setting their strategic remit to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has now been submitted. The Petition received over 1,100 signatures and we would like to thank you for adding your signature and promoting the petition wider. The Petitions […]

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