Wales Biodiversity Week
11-19th June 2005
Get Out And Get Wild! For Wales Biodiversity Week
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Go Wild, Caerphilly – pond dipping
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Wales Biodiversity Week is 9 days of events all over Wales, to help the Welsh public discover and enjoy their local biodiversity.
During June Wales went wild in the sunshine to celebrate Wales Biodiversity Week with over 150 events all over Wales.
Wales Biodiversity Week encourages people to celebrate and enjoy the natural environment and all that lives there.
Emily Fleur Dicks, the Wales Biodiversity Partnership’s Awareness Officer said, “Biodiversity is the amazing variety of life on earth, we are so lucky here in Wales to have such a rich cultural and natural heritage. It is easy to get close to wild nature even in our own gardens”
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Events such as GO WILD! In the Sir Harold Finch Memorial Park, Pontllanfraith in Caerphilly, attracted crowds of local families to get up close and personal with snakes, newts, and owls, to go pond dipping and to learn about how bees help cows make milk by pollinating flowers!
In Bridgend, the local MP Madeleine Moon attended the Kenfig National Nature Reserve open day. Hundreds of visitors were taken to see the rare bee orchids in flower in the sand dunes and children enjoyed pond dipping and wild tales from the story teller.
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Kenfig open Day, Bridgend – MP for Bridgend Madeleine Moon explaining the importance of biodiversity conservation to some locals.
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In Flintshire locals got Wild and Wiggly at Wepre County Park, with an animal fancy dress competition and funfair. This event was organised by the North East Wales Biodiversity network and was sponsored by Persimmon homes.
Sea Creature Sand Sculpture competitions took place in Gwynedd on Black Rock Sands beach and Pembrokeshire on Newgale beach.
In theSnowdonia National Park, local families got close to a huge range of biodiversity species from polecats and water voles to field mice and marine life at Plas Tan y Bwlch.
The week has been a resounding success, connecting Welsh people of all ages with their local wildlife.
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Plas Tan y Bwlch, Snowdonia National Park – Nia Haf Jones, Education Officer for Marine Awareness North Wales playing the seashore code game at Plas Tan y Bwlch
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Black rock sands, Gwynedd - sand sculpture competition Luke Campbell with his sculpture
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