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Gwent Glamorgan Recorders' Newsletter Issue 7 Greater Gwent Biodiversity Action Group Glamorgan Biodiversity Advisory Group G w e n t - G l a m o r g a n Recorders’ Newsletter Issue 7—Autumn October 2012 Creating a haven for wildlife in West Glamorgan Welcome to the seventh issue of the areas will be moni- Gwent-Glamorgan Recorders’ News- tored for key species letter. What a summer! According to throughout the life of the MetOffice, it was officially the wet- the project to assess test summer for 100 years, the se- the effectiveness of cond wettest since 1910 (when rec- the habitat works. ords began), and the dullest summer Survey data gathered since 1987! The weather certainly made it challenging to get out and during year 1 of the about this year, and it remains to be project will be used to seen whether the number of records inform habitat man- from 2012 will reflect this. agement and en- hancement work This month sees the first ever Wales which is likely to in- Fungus Day taking place on the 14th clude: October. See page 16 for further details on how to help find the largest Shrill carder bee © Buglife Scrub clearance fairy ring in Wales! and thinning to pro- We are asking for your opinions on Wildlife charity, Buglife – The Invertebrate mote the establishment of wildflower rich possible changes to the Gwent and Conservation Trust have been awarded grassland and heathland; funding from WREN, a landfill tax grant Glamorgan Recorders’ Fora (see Enhancing microhabitat features through giving body, to carry out an exciting new page 4 for further details on how to the creation of bare ground scrapes. project for wildlife on ex-industrial sites in get involved). The survey will not take Bare patches of ground are ideal for South Wales. very long to complete and will really basking invertebrates and reptiles, and help us decide on the future format of This 3 year project will focus on 5 brown- will encourage the development of early these events. field sites in Swansea and Neath Port Tal- successional vegetation; Enjoy the newsletter! bot – these are Kilvey Hill and Pluck Lake Wildflower meadow creation to enhance Rebecca Davies, SEWBReC (Editor) (Swansea); and Cymmer Tip, Bryn Tip and floral diversity and provide high quality non-operational land at Tata Steel (Neath forage resources for invertebrates; Port Talbot). The rich industrial heritage of Bee bank creation to provide burrowing Included in this issue: this area, including coal mining and heavy habitat for bees and wasps. Bee banks metal smelting, has created a legacy of Wildlife haven in West Glamorgan 1-2 will provide topographical variation and sites, some of which contain contaminated SEWBReC News 2-4 will vegetate over time creating micro- soils and substrates that can be highly habitats that will be able to support a Monmouthshire Meadow Group 5 alkaline or highly acidic. It is these varied variety of invertebrates to include ground Botanical highlights in 2012 (VC35) 5-6 ground conditions that create pockets of beetles and spiders. Canada Tips & Quarry Pools, Blaenavon 7 different habitat types such as bare Blaencanaid Raven Roost Update 8 ground, wildflower rich grassland, heath- Through survey, management and moni- land and scrub – making brownfield sites a Rare Fungus in Dingestow 9 toring, this project will work at a landscape haven for wildlife, especially for inverte- Wildboar in Gwent 9-10 scale to provide habitat for many threat- brates and reptiles. ened invertebrates including UK and Local Recording around Ebbw Vale 11 BAP species such as Shrill carder bee Wasp Spider Record - First for Wales 12 During the next 3 years Buglife and part- ners plan to collate existing baseline data, (Bombus sylvarum), Brown banded carder Taf Fechan Nature Reserve 13 and gather further data on all sites for in- bee (Bombus humilis), Dune tiger beetle Swift Nesting 14 vertebrates, reptiles, amphibians and flora. (Cicindela maritima), Dingy skipper Disaster…..or succession 14-15 Work will be undertaken to restore and enhance 48 hectares of habitat and these Volunteering & Events 16 Issue 7—Autumn Creating a haven for wildlife in West Glamorgan (...cont) (Erynnis tages), Grayling (Hipparchia semele), Small blue (Cupido minimus) and Grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae). UK BAP reptiles and amphibians to ben- efit from the project include Adder (Vipera berus), Grass snake (Natrix natrix), Common lizard (Zootoca vivipa- ra) and Slow worm (Anguis fragilis). Buglife hopes to work with planners, ecologists, developers, land managers and consultants to raise awareness of the importance of brownfields; and will also be carrying out brownfield resource mapping in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot to identify good quality brownfield sites. Numerous events such as Bio- blitzes, wildlife walks and talks will be organised to engage and inspire local Cymmer Tip, Neath Port Talbot © Buglife communities. that additional partnerships will be made 01733 201210 or Partnership working will be key to the throughout the course of the project. [email protected]. success of the project and Buglife are working closely with Swansea and If you would like any further details Clare Dinham, Brownfield Stepping Neath Port Talbot Councils and Tata about the project or would like to be Stones Officer, Buglife - The Inverte- Steel; as well as Bumblebee Conserva- involved with survey work or habitat brate Conservation Trust tion, Amphibian and Reptile Conserva- management please contact Buglife tion and Swansea University. It is hoped Brownfield Officer, Clare Dinham on SEWBReC News Financial Update Progress on funding agreements for with Swansea and Cardiff Councils. We 2012/13 has been excellent. New also continue to seek direct funding Despite continuing difficult times in the agreements are in place with the three from the Welsh Government (WG). wider economy, SEWBReC remains on bodies (Countryside Council for Wales, Apart from a small amount of funding for a very stable financial footing. As report- Environmental Agency Wales and For- some data layers to feed into the Glastir ed at the SEWBReC AGM on 20th Sep- estry Commission Wales) which are due agri-environment scheme, it is now tember 2012, accounts produced for to be merged into a new Natural Re- more than two and a half years since we 2011/12 financial year end showed a sources Body for Wales, which will start had any formal funding agreement in profit of £9,835. This has enabled us to functioning in April 2013. Service Level place with WG. With the advent of the build up a healthy financial surplus Agreements and Data Licence Agree- new Natural Resources Body for Wales which equates to almost four months of ments are in place with ten of the twelve next year, we aim to work with the other total running costs of the business, ex- Local Authorities in our region. In addi- three Welsh Local Records Centres to ceeding our target of holding three tion we have agreements with South secure a single ‘Pan Wales’ agreement, months’ of running costs in reserve. As Wales Trunk Roads Agency and Gwent combining funding from WG as well as well as providing welcome relief from Wildlife Trust and continue to receive the new Single Body. any cash-flow difficulties, the financial welcome funding from Wales Biodiversi- Sales of products and services to the surplus has allowed us to carefully plan ty Partnership to run our annual pro- private sector have made a huge contri- some additional expenditure, such as gramme of training courses. replacing some ageing IT equipment, as bution to our current financial position in well as considering further investment in As well as the funding success stories, recent years. We reported in the last our broadband connection and IT sys- there remain a few frustrating funding tems to allow us to begin to provide new gaps. We remain committed to achiev- products and services to our data sup- ing full coverage of Local Authority us- Page 2 pliers and users (see the following arti- age of SEWBReC products and ser- cle for more information). vices, by pursuing funding agreements Issue 7—Autumn October 2012 SEWBReC News (...cont) issue that 2011/12 saw sales totalling using software called GeoServer. This Please see the summary below for a over £51,000. I am pleased to report will enable SEWBReC to seamlessly break down of attendance and species that the trend of increased sales seems report on data from other Welsh LRCs records for both events: to be continuing, with figures for the first and the NBN Gateway. It will also ena- Ty Mawr Convent half of 2012/13 showing an increase in ble the Welsh LRCs to better deliver income of 7.5% compared to the same combined data products at the Wales 20 attendees period last year. Already this year 207 level, as well as opening up possibilities Over 300 species recorded; over 230 enquiries have been dealt with from 66 of delivering data products to our users species new to site separate bodies. in new ways via the internet. If all goes >75% new species records to plan, we could be up and running with this new system within 4-6 months. Cefn-pennar-uchaf Farm Digitally Networking the Welsh Lo- The second major strand of our planned 18 attendees (+2 that night, & 2 next cal Records Centres technical developments involves utilis- day) ing two excellent systems which have In the last issue of this newsletter we Over 275 species recorded; over 200 been developed at Cofnod (North reported on how the Welsh LRCs were species new to site Wales Environmental Information Ser- being considered by the ‘ICT Exploita- 82% new species records vice). The first of these is ORCA (Online tion Department’ within the Welsh Gov- Records Centre Administration) which ernment (WG) as potential candidates will streamline a lot of internal infor- for their ‘Digitally Networked Busi- Cefn-pennar Uchaf’s mixed pasture and mation management within SEWBReC.
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