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This autumn, help us find Britain’s most colourful and important fungi – waxcaps.
Fungi are crucial to nearly all life on Earth, but they are not given the recognition and investment they deserve. Will you join our mission to change that?
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Wales is crammed with a multitude of vibrant habitats full of wild plants and fungi. Sadly, many of these are becoming endangered. Plantlife Cymru has a growing team of knowledgeable and dedicated staff working to safeguard them.
Yes, we have rainforests in Wales! These temperate rainforests make up one of our most special and rare habitats. They grow hardly anywhere else on the planet.
A diversity of lichens, mosses and liverworts thrive in our ancient oak woodlands because of Wales’ mild and damp climate. But they are at risk. Plantlife Cymru is working as part of the Alliance for Wales’ Rainforests to ensure they have a long and healthy future.
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Our mission is simply to ‘grow’ the area of semi-natural grasslands in Wales. These colourful meadows brimming with life now only cover 9% of the land of Wales. This is a sad remnant of the extensive meadows which occupied 90% more land 50 years ago.
They are so good for wildlife, livestock, reducing flooding and storing carbon. In the Glaswelltiroedd Gwydn (resilient grasslands) project we’re working with farmers, agricultural organisations and colleges. We’re raising awareness and encouraging them to take action to create more species-rich grasslands.
Our cry is Natur am Byth! – nature forever, as we work to save species which are particularly special to Wales but face the greatest threat of extinction. Plantlife Cymru is focusing on saving exquisite montane flowers and ferns in Eryri, and delicate lichens and mosses of veteran trees and rocky hilltops along the marches and in Mid Wales.In this flagship project we are working alongside eight other conservation organisations and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to save a broad range of species.
Discover how Wales’ flagship green recovery project Natur am Byth! is helping to unravel the mystery of a vanishing lichen.
As governments continue to undervalue grasslands, Plantlife is calling on policymakers to help farmers make sustainable choices.
Discover how Plantlife is working with governments to protect and restore temperate rainforest along the Atlantic coast of Britain.
The beautiful mountain plant, Rosy Saxifrage, has returned to the wild in Wales after becoming extinct in 1962.
Discover the gnarled woodlands on the wildest peaks in Wales, as Robbie Blackhall-Miles reveals the secrets of Eryri’s miniature but magical Juniper forests.
The Wild Leek has been a symbol of Wales for so long that its stories date back to St David himself.
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