Blog: Living Seas

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Volunteers cleaning the beach at Porth Trecastell

Glanhau Traeth Plast Off! 2023

Fe ddechreuodd Ymddiriedolaeth Natur Gogledd Cymru ein dathliadau 60 mlynedd mewn steil gyda’n sesiwn glanhau traethau mwyaf, a mwyaf llwyddiannus, erioed, gan ysbrydoli nifer enfawr o bobl i ddod…

Under-boulder community - NWWT

Shoresearch rocky shore surveys - Nov 2022

Our last trips to the shore of the year, we visited our three hub areas again for the group surveys. All three were shores we’ve been to before at various times of the year. Since they were to be…

Goose barnacles Cricieth - Charlie and Clare Welsh

Shoresearch rocky shore survey - October 2022

October saw us out on shore together in three group surveys, attending a rafting bivalves workshop with Anna Holmes from the National Museum of Wales and doing our own self-led Timed Species…

Worm inspection - NWWT

Shoresearch rocky shore surveys - Sept 2022

September was an incredibly full month of surveys and workshops. We’re including the Red Algae course on the last day of August in that too. Our Level 2 Shoresearchers will be keen to be out and…

Morchellium argus, sea squirt - NWWT

Shoresearch rocky shore surveys - August 2022

With our shores being busy with tourism and the tides being low early doors and evening, we’ve managed to get some Shoresearch surveys in for August, by heading out early and late. Thanks to keen…

Irish moss and Ceramium Shoresearch T. Coch - Dan Lear

Shoresearch rocky shore surveys - July 2022

We had three more shore visits in July ahead of the school holiday rush and just leaking into the heatwave hitting the UK. These heatwaves are caused by Climate Change a massive global challenge,…

Wireweed Porth Swtan ©Annie Bradford

Shoresearch Rocky shore surveys - May 2022

Throughout this month we visited 3 sites for group Shoresearches, and timed species searches for invasive species, since it was INNS week. We ended May with 3 days’ worth of have-a-go sessions.…

Spotted cowrie/cragen Iago (Trivia monacha) - NWWT

Shoresearch Cymru - rocky shore surveys April22

At the beginning of this month we were out with our have-a-go sessions in our three hub areas and mid-month carried out a double-header (now the light is with us) and started and ended the day…

Paddleworm eggs  - Sue Timperley

Shoresearch Cymru - rocky shore surveys

This month we managed several surveys as well as joining the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society (PMNHS) for a joint investigation of the shores at Clynnog fawr, close to the North Llyn coast…