Walking with kids [get strategic!]

Walking with kids [get strategic!]

...we’ve walked along some public footpaths, and done a spot of geo-caching. We’ve devised new treasure hunts and been on a safari expedition - kitted out with explorer rucksacks on their backs. We’ve even tried to be budding cameramen with the boys taking turns with the video camera. Kids love tech.

Young poets at the Eisteddfod

Young poets at the Eisteddfod

by Helen Evans on 06. Aug, 2010 in education, education training and interpretation, natural environment and landscape

The Countryside Council for Wales sponsors the ‘nature of our community’ poetry project, through a partnership with the National Eisteddfod and with support from Academi – the society which promotes the writers and the literature of Wales.

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Skomer’s sublime slugs

Skomer’s sublime slugs

by Phil Newman on 29. Jul, 2010 in biological sciences, marine biology, marine science

Some sea slugs can be several centimetres in length, whereas others may be smaller than a grain of rice. Quite often the only clue to a sea slug’s presence are its eggs. Usually laid in ribbons or rosettes, the shape can help identify the species laying them.

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CCW at the Royal Welsh Show

CCW at the Royal Welsh Show

by Helen Evans on 15. Jul, 2010 in education, information and communication, media and the press, natural resource conservation, natural resource management, natural resources, public relations

Find the CCW stand and help us support the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, as declared by the United Nations. We’ll be joined by the Environment Minister, Jane Davidson, who’ll be speaking about the importance of biodiversity – our ‘natural life support system’.

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Cyfle euraid mewn cyfnod anodd

Cyfle euraid mewn cyfnod anodd

by Roger Thomas on 12. Jul, 2010 in business communications, business management, business planning, corporate governance, estates and facilities management, financial management, human resource management, organisational development, project and programme management, service delivery

Gyda datblygiad Fframwaith yr Amgylchedd Naturiol (y bydd yr ymgynghoriad ffurfiol yn ei gylch yn cael ei gyhoeddi tua chanol mis Medi) ynghyd â mwy o ddatganoli, heb sôn am y toriadau sy’n hofran uwchben cyllidebau’r sector cyhoeddus, mae’r adolygiad – a oedd yn anochel yn nhyb nifer ohonon ni – wedi llamu’n sydyn i ganol y llwyfan.

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An opportunity in challenging times

An opportunity in challenging times

by Roger Thomas on 12. Jul, 2010 in business communications, business management, business planning, corporate governance, devolved administrations, e-government, estates and facilities management, financial management, human resource management, organisational development, project and programme management, service delivery

With the development of the Natural Environment Framework (NEF) – to be launched in consultation format in mid-September – and growing devolution, not to mention the looming public sector budget cuts, a review that many of us for some time have seen as inevitable has suddenly been catapulted to centre stage.

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What Wales do you see?

What Wales do you see?

by Catherine Duigan on 07. Jul, 2010 in agriculture, biological resources, conservation biology, education, fisheries, historic conservation, historic environment, natural resource conservation, natural resource management, natural resources, society and economics, trade and industry, video

It is a great privilege to be an adopted citizen of this ecologically diverse country and to work for its conservation. But it does set you wondering – what do others see around them in Wales?

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