News Archive
Newport City Council are seeking nominations from members of the public for membership of the Newport City Local Access Forum.
An introduction to nature finance and well-being economics – free webinar.
A beginners’ guide to Wales’ new farm support scheme.
There’s a new bus route to RSPB Newport Wetlands!
Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences are investigating soil organic carbon dynamics in saltmarshes.
Help Living Levels gain a deeper understanding of the needs and experiences of those visiting the Gwent Levels by answering our 10-minute survey!
Living Levels is pleased to be a local partner in a major new research project that explores how to achieve net zero in ways that are fair to livestock farmers, called JUSTLANZ.
Happy birthday, Newport Wetlands. What was once an industrial wasteland, is now a haven for wildlife and a symbol of nature’s resilience in the face of the nature and biodiversity emergencies.
Throughout November and December, Sam (Community Engagement Officer) and Josh (Natural Heritage Officer) have been working alongside the Severn Estuary Partnership to support FreshWater Watch.
Severn Estuary Partnership are looking for volunteers to help two citizen science initiatives happening across the Gwent Levels area.
The Monmouthshire 2030 dragonfly atlas project is looking for a volunteer to help complete the project.
Natural Resources Wales today released more welcome news about the status of bitterns and marsh harriers as Newport Wetlands.
Newport Wetlands and Magor Marsh nature reserves are to join a list of sites from across the UK that have been specially chosen for the range of dragonfly and damselfly species they support.
Visitors to the sea wall at Goldcliff can take part in a global initiative to help monitor the effects of climate change on our coastlines.
Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve is celebrating another successful year for two iconic wetland birds that have recently returned to the Gwent Levels.
After no sightings for over ten years, Variable Damselflies have been rediscovered at two sites on the 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.
We have some amazingly talented local poets in and around the Levels. Read Stephen Cogbill’s recent poem Future Echoes.
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.
Following reports of a wooden structure on the foreshore at Peterstone, Archaeologists made a remarkable discovery.
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The (Future) Wales Coast Path is a year long series of creative events and installations exploring the impact sea level rise could have on the coastline of Wales, and investigating our relationship to land and water. Project lead, Alison Neighbour, describes what’s happening.
If you’ve got half-an-hour to spare, BBC Wales are broadcasting a programme entitled “Life on the Levels: A portrait of the past, present and future of the Gwent Levels”. The programme features interviews with archaeologist Professor Martin Bell, local historian and farmer Sue Waters, and artist Alison Neighbour.
RSPB Cymru in conjunction with partners, including NRW, Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Gwent Wildlife Trust, and the Living Levels Landscape Partnership, have produced a booklet for farmers and land managers.
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.
Usually the cry is of “bats in the belfry”, but at St Cadwaladr’s we have something else stirring upstairs – Barn Owls.
After visiting Magor Marsh, Climate Minister Julie James MS issues a statement pledging support for the Gwent Levels.
Living Levels has been investing in large scale habitat improvement works to restore some of the most degraded and threatened features of the Gwent Levels SSSIs.