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St Madoc Centre secures Environment Wales funding

St Madoc Centre in Llanmadoc in Gower, South Wales has been awarded a much-needed boost to help develop an exciting new initiative.  The centre which is an A Rocha Associated Project has 76 acres of land, much of which is dominated by Bracken.  The Environment Wales award of £9,200 will be used to buy tools to encourage the flora-rich grassland back and survey equipment to collect data on plants, bats, moths, butterflies and birds.

Manager, Alison Holland said “This is a real encouragement to the team.  I’m looking forward to seeing previously untouched areas of the estate managed to encourage wildlife.”  Volunteers will be recruited to help target Bracken which has taken over much of the landscape.  It is hoped that rare and unusual plant species such as Bloody Cranesbill, Hound's Tongue and Squinancywort will increase and that Chough may be encouraged to extend their use of the Gower coastline North from Rhossilli to the St Madoc Centre.

For more information about the Environment Wales initiative, their core partners and the types of project it can support please contact the team on 02920431727 or email: info@environment-wales.org

Visit the St Madoc Centre website to find out more about the project and how you can get involved.