Ceredigion Nature Festival 2026

Join us for a day of wildlife, creativity, discovery and community at the Ceredigion Nature Festival, taking place on Saturday 11 July, 10am–4pm, at the Castle Green, Aberystwyth.

Ceredigion Catchment Partnership - Stakeholder Meeting

West Wales Catchment Partnerships –
Teifi (Ceredigion)

• Wednesday 17 June 2026 13:00 – 14:30
• Room Teifi, Penmorfa, Ceredigion County Council Offices, SA46 0PA
• Hybrid. Join online: Meeting Link

A stakeholder meeting to discuss the possibilities and opportunities for developing a Catchment Partnership for the Teifi (Ceredigion).

Ecological Towers at the Centre for Alternative Technology

All the students had great ideas and it was brilliant to see how everyone had gone away and learnt so much about nature since our last meeting. There was a lot of enthusiasm with one student championing not just a design but a whole new inspiring way of working, ‘thinking like a bee’ where plants and habitats are prioritised and paid for at the start of the project so that they are never sacrificed if things are running over-budget or behind schedule. This is something that would really help with our nature recovery goals. There were 6 design presentations and then the staff and students voted on their favourite one that they will build in July. The winning design will be developed and built by the students as part of the Ceredigion Nature Partnership Tŵr Gwyllt challenge fund.

Cletwr Pollinator Festival

I visited the Cletwr Pollinator Festival at the weekend. It was a brilliant event with stalls, activities and information about beautiful and fascinating butterflies, moths and bees so I thought I would fill a gap and give people a chance to make their own mini hoverfly lagoon,  based on the Buzz Club project ideas, which is a micro-habitat where hoverflies can lay their eggs and complete their life-cycle

Badger survey at Pendinas Local Nature Reserve

Guest update by Reserve Officer Chris Harris

A badger survey was carried out on the 12th May 2026 at Pendinas Local Nature Reserve. We met in the car park at Spencer’s Sheds and walked up the path, through Zig Zags and meadows. Badger activity was found, including paths and unused badger sets. We then walked to the other side of Pendinas, finding signs of badger activity, including unused and currently used badger sets. It’s great to work with Gretchen and the Ceredigion Badger Society, who care so much about the conservation of Badgers.

Introducing Your Wild Patch

Yusef Samari, WWBIC GIS Officer and Project Lead yusef@westwalesbiodiversity.org.uk What wildlife is living in your local patch – be that your garden, favourite nature reserve, local park, or whatever ‘your patch’ means to you? How is your patch contributing to the wider biodiversity of your area? What contribution could it potentially make?

Inaugural Ceredigion Nature Festival

The Ceredigion Nature Festival was fantastic. There were lots of people there and charities and donkeys.

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Grassland ID project 2025

6 schools, 12 sites, 120 children and lots of running around outside looking for bugs and flowers