Loving our Environment and making better places for this and future generations and for all life – we are all connected / Caru ein hamgylchedd a gwneud lleoedd gwell ar gyfer y genhedlaeth hon a chenedlaethau'r dyfodol ac ar gyfer pob bywyd- Rydym i gyd yn gysylltiedig
3 of the NAEG officers met with Hamish Liddle who is collecting information on 12 Pembrokeshire towns, including Newport, for the PCC/PCNPA Green Infrastructure project funded by UK Govt. Community Renewal Fund. You can read the notes from this meeting here: https://naeg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NAEG-meeting-with-Hamish-Little.pdf
Please let our secretary Sandra know if you have any comments, corrections or additions, particularly suggestions for deliverable projects. Sandra can be emailed at sandrabayes1@btinternet.com You can also add comments to this post.
Get involved in mapping biodiversity across Newport, meet new people and learn about what species can be found in the town, in partnership with the West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre, we are organising a Newport BioBlitz. What is a BioBlitz? It is a day-long event at which, with the help of ecologists and conservation experts, we will be identifying and recording as many species of plants, animals, insects, and other organisms as possible. Get in touch with Richard for more details!
8.00am prompt. Moth Trap, Tony Lewis, local moth recorder.
Meet at The Newport and Nevern Community Garden, where Market St meets Castle Lane, Newport, SA42 0PJ. Depart 8.05am for moth trap location, 3 min walk from the meeting place. The trap will be set on Friday night – come and see what we have caught, before the moths are safely released.
9.15 Event Intro
Coffee & Pastry with Richard Sylvester (Newport for Nature); followed by how to record what you see (and why!), with Carys Williams (West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre).Memorial Hall, West St, Newport SA42 0TF.
10.00-12.30 Bird walk with Paddy Jenks (Aderyn Ecology).Start at Memorial Hall for a walk from the Parrog along the estuary walk to the ‘Iron Bridge’.
14.00-16.30 Plants and pollinator walk with Dr Abi Lowe and Dr Laura Jones (The National Botanic Gardens of Wales). Start at Memorial Hall for a walk along the back lanes and paths up by the Church and Castle.
20.45-22.00/22.30 Evening bat walk with Den Vaughan (Landsker Ecology). Please book – maximum 20 participants. Email Richard (richard@naeg.org.uk) to book your place.
This has details of our upcoming events. https://mailchi.mp/7116d44cc38e/tree-planting Sign-up now if you’re not already on our mailing list http://eepurl.com/hFCZ75 We need volunteers to help us plant some of the 1200 trees we are aiming to plant in and around Newport. Can you help?
According to the Dwr Cymru Alert Service, the CSO started spilling again on 12th February, and at the point of writing on the morning of 13th, has spilled for 24 hours so far this time. Since Christmas Day, according to Dwr Cymru Welsh Water’s Smart Hub alert signals, the CSO has spilled for a total of 634 hours to date
There were about 193 discharges of raw sewage from the Cwm Pumping Station in 2020, according to Dwr Cymru. This is a really alarming state of affairs. NEW: We’ve been sent the latest update (dated 20th Jan 2022) by Cllr. Paul Harries. This is not encouraging. More investigations will follow.
We held the launch of our Newport For Nature project last month and now have the first newsletter to help keep people up to date. Please click on this link: https://mailchi.mp/3d9a8a798820/october-update
There will also be a general NAEG meeting in early November – watch this website
We’ve just heard of a free opportunity to learn more about our wonderful dark skies and how to use this to promote the community and business. If you are interested, please use the eventbrite link to book. This on-line event is on 9th March, 10:30-11:30am.
The Built Environment sub-group have agreed to write to the Town Council:
to seek clarity on future building land in Newport
to offer our support for the place plan process, and suggest some guiding principles.
to state our all new sites should only provide housing that was needed for people to live here as their principal residence, in terms of number of homes, design, cost and environmental qualities, and
to make a joint approach with us to the owners/agents of both the one housing allocation, and of the remaining business park land which is no longer protected as employment land, in the emerging Replacement LDP – to explore how housing developed will be suitable to meet the needs of people who live here.
Please click the following link to view / download the draft letter.
Our website has been updated, and is now based on WordPress. This should make it easier for group members to update the website content.
There may still be a few things not fully working, so if you have any issues or suggestions please write to the website administrator: support@naeg.org.uk
If you have volunteered (and been accepted) as a content creator you need to be registered on the NAEG web site. The administrator will do this for you. Please send an email to the site administrator at support@naeg.org.uk .
There is now a new page providing help with this site. Please view this page.
