Category Archives: Countryside Council for Wales

Ian Mercer’s life celebrated

Posted on 25/01/2022 by campaignerkate

I was delighted when the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) accepted my offer to write an entry for Ian Mercer.  I first met Ian in 1973 when he was about to become the first Dartmoor National Park Officer, and … Continue reading →

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Thirty years of WEL doing

Posted on 14/12/2020 by campaignerkate

Wales Environment Link has celebrated its 30th anniversary, and is a strong and effective body. Continue reading →

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Pop-up footbridge

Posted on 14/08/2019 by campaignerkate

It was a surprise to find a well-engineered footbridge had appeared over the A470 in time for the eisteddfod, when money cannot be found to provide much-needed bridges over public paths. Continue reading →

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Rhodri’s route

Posted on 19/05/2017 by campaignerkate

If it was not for Rhodri Morgan, former first minister of Wales who died on 17 May, we might have no Wales Coast Path. Continue reading →

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Ian Mercer: national-park giant

Posted on 25/09/2016 by campaignerkate

Ian Mercer, the first Dartmoor National Park Officer and first chief executive of the Countryside Council for Wales has died aged 83. Continue reading →

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Eisteddfod tradition continues

Posted on 07/08/2016 by campaignerkate

This year the Ramblers and Open Spaces Society organised the walk from the Eisteddfod in Abergavenny. Continue reading →

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Stepping out at the eisteddfod

Posted on 07/08/2014 by campaignerkate

I am delighted that Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is continuing the tradition of the annual eisteddfod walk.  This year we walked part of the millennium coastal path between Llanelli and Burry Port in Carmarthenshire. NRW came into being in April … Continue reading →

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Morgan Parry: an exceptional Welsh environmentalist

Posted on 08/01/2014 by campaignerkate

It is tragic that Morgan Parry has died aged only 56.  He was a leading environmentalist, well known throughout Wales and beyond, who lived on a smallholding near Caernarfon in North Wales. I first came across Morgan in about 1994 … Continue reading →

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What future for the Welsh landscape?

Posted on 03/04/2013 by campaignerkate

On 1 April 2013 Natural Resources Wales (NRW), the new environmental body for Wales, came into being.  Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru translates more poetically as Wales’s Natural Wealth. NRW is enormous, an amalgamation of the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), Environment Agency and Forestry … Continue reading →

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Two Welsh commons

Posted on 04/10/2012 by campaignerkate

I visited two very different commons in Bridgend borough this week, at the request of staff from the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) who wanted to show me, and get my thoughts on, what was happening there. Kenfig Common lies on the … Continue reading →

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