Natural Resources Wales News Archives

Builder prosecuted after destroying protected bat roosts

A builder who destroyed three protected bat roosts while removing a cottage roof has been handed a 12-month conditional discharge.

Natural Resources Wales has confirmed its tree felling operation in Llanbradach will be finished by July this year.

Allotments instead of antidepressants? Social prescribing is a new way of thinking in the battle against poor mental health.

Welsh Government minister Julie James will monitor efforts to prevent harmful chemicals leaking from an old quarry near Ynysddu.

Visitors to Cwmcarn Forest Drive could face price hikes for admission fees as Caerphilly Council tries to shore up the attraction’s finances.

Ynysddu ward councillors Jan Jones and Janine Reed have repeated calls for action over the pollution at Ty Llwyd quarry.

Council leader Sean Morgan has asked First Minister Mark Drakeford for Welsh Government support with a toxic quarry near Ynysddu.

Caerphilly Council has been issued with a warning after it allowed contaminated water from a hazardous waste site to spill onto a public road.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has confirmed a sewage spill occurred in the Sirhowy River and suspect it was down to a “misconnection”.

A ‘drought liaison group’ has started meeting to plan ahead for the summer, Wales’ climate change minister has confirmed.