Seagrass Project

 Bore da pawb,

An interesting week, especially  my time with the team from the Seagrass Project; Homepage - Project Seagrass.

The team have been collecting the Seagrass, Zostera noltii, or Dwarf Seagrass from a small donor site on the Burry inlet and relocation some to our own Llanelli beach and some to Cardiff Bay. I have to say this is no easy task, although I didn't get involved in the harvesting or replanting, I merely provided 4x4 transport, this is hard work and I take my hat off to the team ably led by Emma Fox.

I forgot to mention that the previous week I attended an amazing workshop on Marine Invasive Non Native Species , MINNS, led by consultants working on behalf of Natural Resources Wales It was nice to meet a team who really know their stuff and more importantly Carmarthen Bay.

We met two amazing Cocker spaniels who are conservation detection dogs, which means they are trained to find by scent specific species in this case the Chinese Mitten Crab. Their owner also wishes them to detect Water Voles, so I've been asked to collect Water Vole poo and send off to her.....

I visited Penrhyngwyn Point to check on a report of Japanese Knotweed growing on the shingle bank, amazingly there is a robust stand of this tenacious invasive a job for my team..

I also picked up a few butterflies including a smart Small Copper. Plenty of Yellow Horned Poppy Plants along the shingle were great to see, the habitat is recognised as Coastal vegetated shingle, -Gro arfordirol gyda llystyfiant,-  a protected habitat in Wales under section 7 of the Environment (Wales) act 2016.