Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales – Jac o' the North

The Tramshed, The Loans, The Leases, The Lord 2

Jac — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:00:25 +0000

This began as an update to the piece I put out a few days ago. But it grew too big. So I had to admit that the only way to do it properly was as a follow-up, a second part. Which explains what you’re about to read. ◊ LEO FROM THE OLD SCHOOL A source, …

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Wildlife Trusts, Crazy Money, Hidden Agendas

Jac — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:45:42 +0000

This is a follow-up to last week’s piece on the enviro-shysters blaming farmers for everything wrong with our rivers, and those behind them hoping to get their corporate claws into farmland. ◊ MERGERS First, let’s make sure you know where our five wildlife trusts are located. On the image below you can also see the …

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Golden Grove: Past, Present, Future Generations

Jac — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:00:51 +0000

The piece you’re about to read poses as many questions as it provides answers. Which is unavoidable given the subject’s complexity. But as great-aunt Fastidia said when she organised Mussolini’s March on Rome – “You gotta start somewhere, Benny”. As an aperitif here’s a guest piece on this blog from 2016, just scroll down to …

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The Alliance Against Livestock Farming

Jac — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:00:51 +0000

This week’s piece about wildlife trusts and environmental groups complements what I put out last week about the assorted river charities. For both seem to be funded to shield Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) and others from criticism by blaming livestock farmers for all river pollution. Also, to pursue the so-called ‘Welsh Government’s Net Zero lunacy …

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‘Saving Wales From The Welsh’

Jac — Mon, 30 May 2022 08:00:41 +0000

“LISTEN TO US” Lurking behind the barns in the Gilestone saga I published last week were environmental / wildlife groups. Now I think they need some sunlight. What prompted my decision was a tweet I saw just over a week ago. The idea that a wildlife trust should be directing the ‘Welsh Government’s farm funding …

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Nest of Vipers: Third Sector Tales

Jac — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:28:00 +0000

Wales is a small country, and once you start delving into the darker recesses of public life you uncover organisations of which you’ve never heard, you discover avenues of questionable funding, and you see names cropping up over and over again. This interconnectedness is not healthy; especially when so many of the shadowy groups and …

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Hobby Jobs

Jac — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:12:47 +0000

As someone who, in his younger days, collected ‘pets’ from the ponds and waste ground of north Swansea, I have always taken an interest in wildlife, and indeed (in the phase that followed the pet collecting) wild life. Many a carefree boyhood hour was spent catching grass snakes, collecting newts, and sneaking up on lizards …

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