A newly established team at Natural Resources Wales (NRW) aims to inspect over 800 farms in 2024 to help reduce the impact of agricultural pollution. The team is embarking on a programme of inspections on farms throughout Wales to assess compliance with the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations (CoAPR) introduced by Welsh Government. The Welsh…
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has today published a new evidence report about water quality within Special Area of Conservation (SAC) rivers in Wales. The report complements NRW’s 2021 phosphorus compliance report and looks at compliance against seven additional water quality targets including ammonia. It focuses on 127 water bodies within the nine SAC river catchments – Cleddau,…
Natural Resources Wales’s (NRW) Forest Operations and Land Management teams will be turning back the clock to use traditional forestry skills to thin an area of sensitive woodland in Fforest Fawr near Tongwynlais, on the outskirts of Cardiff. Horse logging is an ancient sustainable forest management technique that uses horses to pull timber from felling…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council recently purchased land in Cwmbach Aberdare the purchase price was £22,000 played for by the taxpayer, the land purchased included a privately owned category D coal tip a tip with the potential to impact public safety, to be inspected at least twice a year. The previous owner of the land was…
NRW health advisor, Steven Meaden, talks about how spending time enjoying nature is good for us and the natural environment too, and offers ways to make the most of the outdoors this winter. For many people, winter’s cold air and shorter daylight hours means a shift to spending more time indoors and being more sedentary…
Commenting on the announcement that eleven new production projects helping to place UK at forefront of the hydrogen industry and bring progress towards net zero ambitions, Welch Conservative Shadow Climate Change Minister, Janet Finch-Saunders MS said: “This is fantastic news from the UK Conservative Government, hydrogen presents a massive economic opportunity for the UK, unlocking…
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has today (Wednesday 13 December 2023) published new general licences for the control of wild birds for the 2024 calendar year. While all wild birds are protected by law, there are specific circumstances where NRW licences the lethal control of wild birds and the destruction of eggs and nests. These are…
OPERATING a metal waste collection business without a waste carrier licence has come at a high cost for a Neath man. Michael Rhys Mochan, of Giants Wharfe caravan park, Briton Ferry, Neath must pay a total of £3,420 in court fines and costs after pleading guilty to transporting controlled waste without registering as a waste…
As world leaders gather to discuss how to tackle climate change at the annual COP28 conference, Natural Resources Wales is calling on the public sector in Wales to sign up and commit to the ‘Nature and Us’ vision for Wales in 2050, where we see society and nature thrive together. In an open letter,…
A skip company has been fined £7000 and the company director given a 12-week custodial sentence for the for the illegal depositing of waste at Barnhill Industrial Estate near Blackwood, following an investigation by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Digaway Limited and the sole company director, Mr Daniel Jenkins, were found guilty of depositing controlled waste…
