Where the Wild Things Are
A Powys-wide project identifying and engaging people in Local Wildlife Sites
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Hornet robberfly
With black-and-yellow markings, the Hornet robberfly looks like its namesake, but is harmless to us. This mimicry helps to protect it from predators while it perches in the open, waiting for its…
Lowland heath
Heathlands form some of the wildest landscapes in the lowlands, where agriculture and development jostle for space, containing and limiting natural processes. Once considered as waste land of…
Spiked shieldbug
The spiked shieldbug has fearsome shoulder projections or 'spikes' and a predatory nature. This brown bug feeds on caterpillars and other insects in woodlands and on heathlands.
Woodland
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Narcissus bulb fly
With ginger hairs, dark banding and a cream tail, the Narcissus bulb fly looks like a bumble bee, but is harmless to us. This mimicry helps to protect it from predators while it searches for…
Gweundiroedd a gwaun
These wild, open landscapes stretch over large areas and are most often found in uplands. Although slow to awaken in spring, by late summer heathland can be an eye-catching purple haze of heather…
Learn and Build - Working Together for Nature
A partnership project with Llanfyllin Shed, the 'Learn and Build - Working Together for Nature' project aims to promote a sense of community, local pride and belonging, while making positive changes for the environment and conservation
My mission
Megan is fascinated by the wide variety of British wildlife, particularly discovering what lives in the garden. She loves putting out the moth trap overnight and finding the moths in the morning.…
Lowland dry oak and birch wood
Gnarled veteran oaks are interspersed with groves of pale, elegant birches, while swathes of bracken and soft tussocks of wavy hair-grass cover ground from which autumn fungi sprout.…
Purple moor-grass and rush pasture
This distinctive type of damp pasture is generally found on commons, as a component of lowland fen, or in undeveloped corners of otherwise intensively farmed landscapes.
Gall siopwyr yn Tesco yn y Trallwng nawr bleidleisio i gefnogi prosiect 'Celf Gymunedol mewn Natur' Ymddiriedolaeth Natur Maldwyn
Bydd yr ymdrech greadigol yn gweld ein rhaglen natur ar gyfer lles sydd wedi ennill gwobrau 'Sgiliau Gwyllt Mannau Gwyllt' yn gweithio gyda phobl ifanc o'r ardal i greu murlun bywyd…