Organisations

Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd

www.cymdeithasedwardllwyd.org.uk

Welsh language natural history organisation

Members organise three natural history walks every Saturday in different parts of Wales

 

Cymdeithas Ted Breeze Jones

www.cymdeithastedbreezejones.org.uk/index.html

Welsh language ornithological society

 

CREW Regeneration Wales

www.regenwales.org

Community led regeneration: “Connecting People and Places”

English only website!

 

PONT

Pori Natur a Threftadaeth / Conservation Grazing

www.pontcymru.org

Advice, training, conferences and farm visits plus grazing, hay and manure swaps.

 

 

Online Resources

 

Llen Natur: Gwefan natur i pobl Cymru

www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur

Natural history website (in Welsh) with links to Wicipedia (Welsh language wiki)

Includes Welsh - English - Latin dictionary of names and terms

 

Antur Enwau

www.enwaucymru.org

  • Dictionary of outdoor terms

  • Names of mountains and rivers

  • History

 

The Dyfi Biosphere 

resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/2012-13/the-dyfi-biosphere/index.html

Extensive collection of online bilingual resources about the Dyfi

 

Pen Llŷn a’r Sarnau Special Conservation Area

www.penllynarsarnau.co.uk

Bilingual resources and information about the marine coastal environment around the submerged glacial moraines or sarnau (literally 'causeways') of the northern half of Cardigan Bay

 

Cymerau

www.hydrocitizenship.com

Hydrocitizenship Collaborative project by nine universities, including Aberystwyth University, to work with communities affected by recent floods towards ecological citizenship.

 

Spirit of the Miners

www.spirit-of-the-miners.org.uk

Bilingual website about mining in mid Wales: history, geology, ecology and conservation.

 

The Great Wind Farm Debate

www.geographyalltheway.com/ks3_geography/energy/wind_farm_debate_enter.htm

Resource for a lesson based on role-playing a planning meeting for a real wind farm in South Wales

Written by a teacher for his Y8 class..

 

Galwad Cynnar

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007rktl

Nature programme (Welsh language) featuring music, discussion and news updates

Includes news about walks with Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd

And also gardening - sometimes with permaculturalist Eirlys Rhiannon

 

Caring for God's Acre

www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk

Welsh borders organisation caring for churchyards: teaches volunteers to dry stone wall, scythe, make small bales etc

Bilingual resources and teachers packs under "Useful Information" tab on side bar of website

 

Chris Dixon’s bilingual resources

www.konsk.co.uk/cymru/cymru.htm

Bilingual resources for permaculture teachers

Bilingual articles and informations about community, traditional patterns and skills eg Ffridd

 

Blogs

 

Meurig Parri's Bilingual blog

www.meurigparri.cymru

Bilingual blog on capitalism, politics, war, environmental issues, colonialism...

Both languages side-by-side on one page

 

Geirfa Garddio

www.twitter.com/GeirfaGarddio

Gardening vocabulary: Collaborative work in Welsh to collect, celebrate and use Welsh names for plants etc

Set up by Eirlys Rhiannon, permaculturalist

 

Huw’s Nursery

www.youtube.com/user/HuwsNursery

Extensive collection of films about organic gardening

All made by Huw, a young man from Tregaron

Currently all in English.

 

Books and Articles

Field guides

Fold-out field guides and charts available in Welsh from Field Studies Council

Blanhigion coetiroedd (Woodland plants)

Bywyd y traeth creigiog (Rocky shore)

 

Llyfr Natur Iolo

Popular full colour field guide by Iolo Williams and Bethan Wyn Jones In Welsh, with additional index in English

Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch:

www.carreg-gwalch.com/product/llyfr_natur_iolo

 

Planet Magazine

Planet: the Welsh Internationalist is an English-language magazine offering a radical, independent approach to Wales and the world.

www.planetmagazine.org.uk

 

Cyfeiriadur Cymreig

Welsh directory