The challenges are multiple and interwoven…
The Nature and Us project area covers a 15-mile section of the River Severn catchment, incorporating some 17,240 acres of members’ land and NRW forestry stretching from Dolfor in the east to Clywedog in the west.
The challenges are multiple and interwoven…the solutions are complex but much can be achieved through our landscape-scale plan to use the sustainable management of natural resources effectively.
The main opportunity for our collaboration is to reduce the effects of climate change such as soil erosion by water and wind. We also need to reverse the declining health of ecosystems that leads to loss of biodiversity.
On a socio-economic front, our project includes tackling threats such as the effect of farming income post-Brexit and health issues like deprivation, obesity and stress of lifestyles that can lead to both physical and mental illness.
Latest blogs
Nature and Farming
MORE than 300 children enjoyed a trip to the prestigious Welsh Sheep 2023 event in Mid Wales yesterday to see how farmers can work with nature, thanks to an upper Severn catchment farming group. The visits of local schools to Red House Farm in Aberhafesp – home of...
Centre opens
A NEW centre to be used by the Maesmawr Group for its events and education programme has been opened near Llanidloes. Members and partners of the farmer-led environmental collaborative in the Upper Severn Catchment held their first meeting at the venue in February....
Farming accolade
MEMBERS of the Maesmawr Group have been recognised for their excellent practices and contribution to farming. The Owen family – Huw, Sioned and Dafydd - of Redhouse Farm, Aberhafesp were presented with the trophy for Overall points winners by the Honorary President of...
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