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There is more than a hint of time travel about Gwent Wildlife Trust’s latest bold venture to ensure that our wildlife will still be around to be enjoyed by our children’s children.

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  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
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    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Older People Older People
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
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    Situation

    To enable us to establish a swathe of wildlife-rich habitats that would have seemed familiar to our stone-age ancestors, the Trust will take fields of well-managed dairy pasture – a monoculture of rye-grass – and create woodland and grassland, full of flowers, insects and birds, grazed by free-ranging livestock. We will develop a wood-pasture landscape, dating back to the ‘open forest’ wildwood of prehistoric Britain, but which continued to be found as Wysewood Common on the Trellech Ridge up until the late 19th century. Isolated populations of plants and animals are always vulnerable to being wiped out. Many species simply cannot cross large areas of open, intensively-managed farmland. The numbers of individuals of rare and sensitive species dwindle in these pockets of habitat, and the lack of connections prevents species from recolonising suitable habitats. Our vision is a strong network of grassland, woodland and wetland across this 400-square kilometer swathe of countryside in the south-eastern corner of Wales. A landscape for people and wildlife Wyeswood Common will be a superb landscape, freely open to all, throughout the year. It will be a great place for people to enjoy and learn about wildlife. The Wildlife Trust owns a wonderful mediaeval barn next door to the land being acquired at their Pentwyn Farm nature reserve. The facilities at the barn are being improved, and will provide a venue for education and community events. Already three local primary schools are excited at the prospect of being involved in the recreation of Wyeswood Common from the very outset.

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    Categories

  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Older People Older People
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other