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
Secrets of healthy soil
"Who knew that?" reflected Powys farmers who attended a workshop and practical sessions led by one of the UK's leading grassland and soil experts. Charlie Morgan, the author of over 60 academic papers including on various trials of different grasses and soil...
Hidden water-world
A summer holiday Citizen Science event allowed the younger members of farming families to discover the health of local rivers and streams in Powys. Led by ecologist Phil Ward (known as "the bugman"), the children were able to carry out kick-sampling on the Severn and...
“Nature and People” launch
A farmer-led community group has launched a project to support the sustainable management of natural resources in the upper Severn catchment of Powys. The project is being supported through the Welsh Government Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme...
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