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Chris Harris
September 24, 2025
News

Hop aboard the bus to nature

Chris Harris
September 24, 2025
News

There’s a new bus route to RSPB Newport Wetlands!

Tagged: newport wetlands, bus

Sam Willmore
September 12, 2025

Saltmarsh Carbon Storage

Sam Willmore
September 12, 2025
Saltmarsh Carbon Storage

Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences are investigating soil organic carbon dynamics in saltmarshes.

Chris Harris
April 16, 2025

Living Levels Survey

Chris Harris
April 16, 2025

Help Living Levels gain a deeper understanding of the needs and experiences of those visiting the Gwent Levels by answering our 10-minute survey!

Chris Harris
April 16, 2025
News

JUSTLANZ: a major new research project  

Chris Harris
April 16, 2025
News

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.

Tagged: Farming, Net zero

Chris Harris
March 2, 2025

Rising from the ashes

Chris Harris
March 2, 2025

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.

Tagged: newport wetlands

Chris Harris
January 24, 2025

FreshWater Watch

Chris Harris
January 24, 2025

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.

Chris Harris
October 22, 2024

Call out for volunteers!

Chris Harris
October 22, 2024
Call out for volunteers!

Severn Estuary Partnership are looking for volunteers to help two citizen science initiatives happening across the Gwent Levels area.

Chris Harris
October 21, 2024

Volunteer needed!

Chris Harris
October 21, 2024
Volunteer needed!

The Monmouthshire 2030 dragonfly atlas project is looking for a volunteer to help complete the project.

Chris Harris
July 18, 2024

Conservation success

Chris Harris
July 18, 2024

Natural Resources Wales today released more welcome news about the status of bitterns and marsh harriers as Newport Wetlands.

Tagged: newport wetlands

Chris Harris
August 7, 2023

Gwent Levels Dragonfly Hotspot

Chris Harris
August 7, 2023

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.

Tagged: wildlife, newport wetlands, magor marsh

Chris Harris
July 21, 2023
News

Help monitor our coastline

Chris Harris
July 21, 2023
News

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.

Chris Harris
July 13, 2023
News

Iconic wetland birds making a comeback

Chris Harris
July 13, 2023
News

Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve is celebrating another successful year for two iconic wetland birds that have recently returned to the Gwent Levels.

Tagged: wildlife, newport wetlands

Chris Harris
June 2, 2023
News

Rare damselfly makes a reappearance

Chris Harris
June 2, 2023
News

After no sightings for over ten years, Variable Damselflies have been rediscovered at two sites on the Levels.

Tagged: wildlife

Chris Harris
April 14, 2023
News

Living Land Management Wales

Chris Harris
April 14, 2023
News

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?’.

Chris Harris
September 29, 2022
News

Sustaining the Gwent Levels conference

Chris Harris
September 29, 2022
News

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.

Chris Harris
August 4, 2022
News

Future Echoes

Chris Harris
August 4, 2022
News

We have some amazingly talented local poets in and around the Levels. Read Stephen Cogbill’s recent poem Future Echoes.

Tagged: poetry

Chris Harris
July 7, 2022
News

The Romans are coming...

Chris Harris
July 7, 2022
News

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.

Chris Harris
July 4, 2022
News

Peterstone Discovery

Chris Harris
July 4, 2022
News

Following reports of a wooden structure on the foreshore at Peterstone, Archaeologists made a remarkable discovery.

Tagged: archaeology, Peterstone

Chris Harris
March 24, 2022

Otterly amazing!

Chris Harris
March 24, 2022

A new family of otters has taken up residence on the outskirts of Newport.

Chris Harris
March 22, 2022

The (Future) Wales Coast Path

Chris Harris
March 22, 2022

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.

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The Living Levels Partnership was formed in 2014 to promote and protect the Gwent Levels. We are a cross-organisational partnership, spanning administrative boundaries, working closely with communities and other stakeholders towards the sustainable management of this landscape.

 

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