Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve is celebrating another successful year for two iconic wetland birds that have recently returned to the Gwent Levels.
Living Land Management Wales is a Monmouthshire-based project that is using satellite mapping, socio-economic and environmental data, and computer modelling to address the fundamental question ‘How should we use our land now and into the future?’.
On Friday 23rd September, around forty people, including farmers, Living Levels Partners, and members of the local community, met at Redwick Village Hall to discuss the Sustaining the Gwent Levels project and the future of farming in Wales.
On Thursday 7th July, we installed the latest in our series of sculptures celebrating the people of the Levels at Lighthouse Inn on the Wentlooge Levels.
On Sunday 22nd August, an intrepid party of Living Levels volunteers set off on an expedition across the saltmarsh and mudflats at Uskmouth looking for evidence of prehistoric cattle.
Four Living Levels volunteers joined a small band of archaeologists in four days of recording of a new area of submerged forest which had been exposed on the foreshore at Goldcliff.