Living Seas Team © NWWT
An end and a beginning!
Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Hello! It’s Dylan and Rhys again and we are no longer Interns! In our last blog we talked about the ending of our six-month internship, ran by The Crown Estate, hosted by the North Wales Wildlife Trust and supported by Menter Môn Morlais and M-SParc.
But we now have some exciting news…
We are now Living Seas Project Officers for the North Wales Wildlife Trust! We are so thankful for the opportunities and experience we gained from the internship. We are now looking forward to taking everything we have learnt into our new roles.
But we now have some exciting news…
We are now Living Seas Project Officers for the North Wales Wildlife Trust! We are so thankful for the opportunities and experience we gained from the internship. We are now looking forward to taking everything we have learnt into our new roles.
The Living Seas team at the North Wales Wildlife Trust is growing and it is great to see two new project officers joining the team. Dylan and Rhys will be working on the conservation of two of Wales’ most important coastal and marine habitats. In their new roles they will be researching historic and current baselines for saltmarsh distribution in North Wales, while engaging local communities with their local saltmarshes. Rhys is also working part-time with Project Seagrass, planting and monitoring restoration sites as part of the Seagrass Ocean Rescue Project in North Wales.
For any of the citizen scientists or volunteers, keep your eyes peeled for some upcoming saltmarsh volunteering events. Saltmarshes are habitats that are teaming with life. Wading and migratory birds feed on the saltmarsh mudflats and in the saltmarsh themselves, juvenile fish use the saltmarsh channels as nurseries and an array of plants grow in the different zones of saltmarsh. Wales even has a saltmarsh plant named after it, Welsh Mudwort, which in Europe only grows in Wales!
I am delighted to be working on this saltmarsh project with the North Wales Wildlife Trust. It is amazing to be part of a project that has not been ran in north Wales before. Saltmarsh is a habitat that often gets overlooked and it is about time we put it back on the map. Saltmarsh is an incredibly diverse habitat, home to a huge array of different species of plants and animals. I’m really looking forward to (hopefully) finding some rare species of plants in the various saltmarshes we have here in north Wales.
I am excited to join the North Wales Wildlife Trust and Project Seagrass as Living Seas Project Officer following on from the Marine Futures Internship. I am really looking forward to stepping into my new role and supporting the delivery of important restoration projects for saltmarsh and seagrass habitats. These are important habitats for some of the most amazing wildlife we have here in North Wales and I can’t wait to get stuck in (no pun intended) to protecting and restoring them!