by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Oct 6, 2025 | News, Uncategorized
Monday 6th October, 2025 Last week, Wales’s Deputy First Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies MS, announced that legal protection would be applied to European beavers, in line with England and Scotland. Afonydd Cymru has, in principle, been supportive of beaver...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Oct 2, 2025 | Consultations
October 2025 Afonydd Cymru’s response to the Environment Agency’s consultation on guidance for preparing Pollution Incident Reduction Plans and Implementation Reports (PIRPs). Click here to view our response in PDF...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 30, 2025 | River of the Month, Uncategorized
Setpember 2025 Encouraged by cooling autumnal water temperatures and stronger river flows, a remarkable species of fish will shortly begin its annual migration upstream to spawn in rivers across Wales. To give their offspring the best chance of survival, the fish will...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 15, 2025 | CEO Blog
Tuesday 16th September, 2025 With the onset of autumn it is easy to forget that (as of writing) most of Wales remains in “environmental drought” status. This situation has been declared by Natural Resources Wales because of exceptionally low rainfall, significantly...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 10, 2025 | News, Uncategorized
Wednesday 10th September, 2025 The 2024 salmon stock assessments for Welsh and English rivers have been published today. Once again, they make for grim reading. In Wales, the salmon populations in all 22 “Principal Salmon Rivers” remain “at risk”, which means they are...