Brecon Beacons National Park

SUNDAY 8 JUNE
14:00 – 17:00
The Nedd Fechan Valley
Fforest Fawr Geopark: European Geoparks Fortnight
Wales Biodiversity Week
LENGTH: 4.2m / 6.8km
MEET: Cwm Porth car park (SN 928 123) car park charges apply.
Join experts from Swansea University on a walk with National Park Wardens looking at the area known as Coedydd Nedd a Mellte (waterfalls area), designated a Special Area of Conservation for its very large and diverse example of old sessile oak wood. Interspersed with ash and lowland woodland, the whole site is biologically rich, with a huge variety of woodland plant communities, mosses and lichens. The rare tufted grass, Wood Fescue, a national rarity, is present in the damp ravines along with the rare Hay-scented Buckler Fern, the pretty Tunbridge Filmy-fern and the limestone-loving Green Spleenwort. Cost: £5 per person. No dogs please.
GRADE: Moderate
LEADER: National Park Warden, Helen Pye
For more details call 01792 295786.

SUNDAY 15 JUNE
14:00 – 17:00
Llangors Lake      
Wales Biodiversity Week
LENGTH: 2.5m / 4km
MEET: Llangasty car park (SO 132 262)
Join experts from Swansea University on a walk with National Park Wardens along the edge of the largest lake in south Wales.  Supporting a rich and diverse range of birdlife and animals, the lake is fringed with extensive reed beds, species rich grassland, water meadows and woodland dominated by alder and willow. Its naturally eutrophic properties (nutrient-rich water supporting a dense plant population) and glacial formation during the last Ice Age make this Special Area of Conservation a fascinating place to spend an afternoon. Cost: £5 per person. No dogs please.
GRADE: Easy
LEADERS: National Park Wardens, Howard Morgan & Steve Smith.
For more details call 01792 295786.

SUNDAY 22 JUNE
14:00 – 17:00
Mynydd Garn Clochdy
LENGTH: 3.4m / 5.5km
MEET: Pen-yr-heol farm, Waterworks Road off the A4043 near Aberyschan (SO 277 047)
Join experts from Swansea University and the National Park on this walk up and around Mynydd Garn Clochdy looking at the specialised plants of wet and dry moorland, the birdlife, including the British Trust for Ornithology’s ringing scheme, heather and other dwarf heath land shrub loving insects and the significance of the local geology and industrial archaeology. Cost: £5 per person. No dogs please.
GRADE/ASCENT: Moderate / 120m
LEADERS: National Park Warden, Steve Smith.
For more details call 01792 295786.

SUNDAY 6 JULY
14:00 – 17:00
Traeth Mawr
LENGTH: 3m / 4.8km
MEET: National Park Visitor Centre (Mountain Centre), Libanus
(SN 977 262) car park fees apply
Join experts from Swansea University on a walk with National Park Wardens looking at this important wetland wildlife habitat whose peat deposits contain a valuable record of the climate of south Wales since the last Ice Age. Designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), it is perhaps the best example in Wales for its combination of raised bog and base-rich, sedge-dominated fen communities. The Traeth is well known for its good populations of a range of dragonflies and damselflies, including the scarce blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnuria pumilio) and the now rare small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly which is also recorded here each year, as are a range of migrant and resident breeding birds. Cost: £5 per person. No dogs please.
GRADE: Easy
LEADER: National Park Warden, Jon Pimm.
For more details call 01792 295786.