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| Supporting Organisations (Wales) |
Under the Wild Meadows (Wales) Initiative, Flora locale is working with many individual farmers and landowners, as well as farming and conservation groups in Wales. Elsewhere, we do not have any locally based stuff, but provide information to land managers in the private, voluntary and government sector, through our annual training programme, publications and websites www.floralocale.org and www.wildmeadows.org.uk.
Supporting organisations of the WIld Meadows (Wales) Initiative are Buglife, Buttterfly Conservation, the Countryside Council for Wales, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Farming and WIldlife Advisory Group in Wales, The Grasslands Trust, The National Trust (Wales), PONT: Pori Natur a Threftadaeth (the Welsh arm of the UK Grazing Animals Project) and the Tir Gofal Farmers' Association. We are also working closely with the the National Botanic Garden of Wales, local wildlife trusts and Wales-based staff of Plantlife. Please click on the green hyperlinks to visit the website of each organisation and do consider supporting their work if you are not already a member.
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Flora locale
Flora locale, the wild-plant restoration charity, is the leading organisation for Wild Meadows (Wales), and is Britain’s only charity concerned with the wise use and supply of British wild flora for ecological restoration. Over the past 10 years it has provided land owners and managers with advice and training on restoring wildflower grasslands, through its website, advisory notes, training events and other meetings. |
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The Countryside Council for WalesThe Countryside Council for Wales is the Government's statutory advisor on sustaining natural beauty, wildlife and the opportunity for outdoor enjoyment in Wales and its inshore waters. It is the primary funder for Wild Meadows (Wales), and has carried out extensive surveys of wildflower grasslands in Wales.
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PONT: Pori Natur a Threftadaeth (the Welsh arm of the UK Grazing Animals Project)
PONT provides support for sustainable grazing of grasslands that are of high biodiversity value. The organisation can provide practical help to individual landowners, including smallholders with unregistered land, such as finding grazing animals. The Grazing Animals Project website also holds lots of information about grazing for wildlife.
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The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group in WalesThe Farming and Wildlife Group offers advice and organises farm visits, to support farmers wishing to improve their farms for environmental benefits, from slurry management to meet cross-compliance, to restoring habitats through agri-environment schemes such as Tir Gofal.
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The Grasslands TrustThe Grasslands Trust is the only national charity working specifically to protect wildflower-rich grasslands. It aims to both raise the profile of this threatened habitat, purchase threatened grasslands and buy land where wildflower grasslands can be restored or re-created, such as at Carmel (Carmarthenshire).
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The National TrustThe National Trust owns many exceptionally diverse grasslands throughout Britain, and is carrying out some of the largest grassland restoration projects. It will be actively contributing to the Wild Meadows (Wales) Initiative by carrying out meadow restoration, such as at Dinefwr (Carmarthenshire) and loaning machinery.
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Butterfly Conservation (Wales) Butterfly Conservation is the largest insect conservation organisation in Europe and possibly even the world, with over 30 regional branches covering the whole of the UK. There are offices in England, Scotland and Wales from which staff operate to help stimulate and guide local and national action. Many of Britain’s most threatened butterflies, such as the Marsh Fritillary, are dependent on wildflower grasslands. Several projects, in Devon and south-west Wales, are currently working with landowners to restore grasslands for this species.
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Buglife
Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, and we are passionately committed to saving Britain's rarest little animals, everything from bees to beetles, and spiders to snails. Today bugs are under threat as never before, so help us to secure a diverse and wildlife-rich planet for future generations.
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PlantlifePlantlife – the wild-plant conservation charity – is a charity working to secure a future for the world’s wild plants. In the UK, it owns several grassland nature reserves and employs local officers in Wales, Scotland and England including a Lower Plants Officer in Wales.
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Tir Gofal Farmers' AssociationThe Association provides support to farmers and landowners having Tir Gofal agreements, and to represent their interests while also promoting sustainable food and farming and the good management of wildlife habitats on farms.
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The Wildlife Trusts in Wales
The local wildlife trusts together form Britain’s largest voluntary nature conservation organisation, with some 670,000 members and 2,200 nature reserves. Several local trusts, such as the Gwent Wildlife Trust, are undertaking grassland restoration projects and can provide advice to landowners on managing important grasslands.
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The Botanic Garden of Wales
Pastures and hay meadows on the Garden's farm are being managed to restore wild flowers and other wildlife associated with Wild Meadows. The Garden is also working with other conservation organisations to develop a range of other initiatives and education resources.
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