Gower National Landscape

13/06/2026

🧱 🔨Two-day dry stone walling workshop🔨🧱

🌿Join us for a series of workshops where we will learn more about the importance of dry-stone walls on Gower and the fundamentals of how to build them. Each workshop is run over two days.

🎟️Booking required: https://shorturl.at/9ZHwx

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🧱 🔨Gweithdy codi waliau sych deuddydd🔨🧱

🌿Ymunwch â ni am gyfres o weithdai lle byddwn yn dysgu rhagor am bwysigrwydd waliau sychion ym mhenrhyn Gŵyr a sut i'w hadeiladu. Cynhelir bob gweithdy dros ddeuddydd.

🎟️Rhaid cadw lle: https://shorturl.at/9ZHwx

05/06/2026

2 spaces available for tomorrow's free workshop!

Tickets are now available for Basket making workshop (full day)/Gweithdy gwneud basgedi (diwrnod llawn) at Bishop's Wood Countryside Centre, Swansea on Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 10:00AM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

04/06/2026

✨🙌This week we celebrate and want to say a big thank you to the amazing and dedicated volunteers, who help look after our green spaces, vital habitats and wildlife.✨🙌

🌳🪚🪻Our volunteers support a wide range of conservation efforts - from tackling invasive species that crowd out native woodland flora, to clearing brambles so ground-layer plants can thrive. They also plant and lay hedgerows, which provide essential corridors and shelter for birds, insects and small mammals.

🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🐭🐾Throughout the year, volunteers monitor species, lead walks, support surveys and share knowledge - helping others connect with nature.

🙏💚Thank you for your time, energy and passion!

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✨🙌Rydym yn dathlu Wythnos Gwirfoddolwyr yr wythnos hon a hoffem ddiolch yn fawr i'r holl wirfoddolwyr arbennig ac ymroddedig sy'n helpu i ofalu am ein mannau gwyrdd, am gynefinoedd hanfodol ac am fywyd gwyllt.✨🙌

🌳🪚🪻Mae ein gwirfoddolwyr yn cefnogi ystod eang o ymdrechion cadwraeth - o fynd i'r afael â rhywogaethau goresgynnol sy'n cymryd lle fflora coetiroedd brodorol i glirio mieri fel y gall planhigion ar y ddaear ffynnu. Maent hefyd yn plannu ac yn gosod gwrychoedd, sy'n darparu coridorau hanfodol a lloches i adar, pryfed a mamaliaid bach.

🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🐭🐾Trwy gydol y flwyddyn, mae gwirfoddolwyr yn monitro rhywogaethau, yn arwain teithiau cerdded, yn cefnogi arolygon ac yn rhannu gwybodaeth - gan helpu eraill i gysylltu â natur.

🙏💚Diolch am eich amser, eich egni a’ch brwdfrydedd!

28/05/2026

27/05/2026

🙌A huge thank you to everyone who took part, and a big thank you to all event leaders and supporters!

(C) Glo i Natur CIC (C) Hirundo rustica (iNaturalist)
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Dyna ddiwedd ar Her Byd Natur y Ddinas 2026!
Diolch yn fawr i bawb a gymerodd ran, a diolch yn fawr i holl arweinwyr a chefnogwyr y digwyddiad!

26/05/2026

🎉🎉City Nature Challenge 2026 results are in!🎉🎉
Your efforts to document local biodiversity have delivered incredibly impressive results - and it really shows what we can do when we work together.

✨Across the City and County of Swansea, 40 individuals from 22 nature groups and organisations delivered 27 public and 6 closed events, engaging 450+ people.
🙌A huge thank you to everyone who took part, and a big thank you to all event leaders and supporters!🤝

📝The City Nature Challenge is organised globally by the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. In Swansea, the challenge is coordinated locally by the Nature Recovery Team at Swansea Council (Evelyn Gruchala, Nature Recovery Volunteer Coordinator)
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🎉🎉Mae canlyniadau Her Byd Natur y Ddinas 2026 yma!🎉🎉
Mae eich ymdrechion i ddogfennu bioamrywiaeth leol wedi cyflawni canlyniadau hynod drawiadol, ac mae'n dangos yr hyn allwn ni ei wneud pan fyddwn yn gweithio gyda'n gilydd.

✨Ar draws Dinas a Sir Abertawe, cyflwynodd mwy nag 40 o unigolion o 22 grŵp a sefydliad natur 27 o ddigwyddiadau cyhoeddus a 6 digwyddiad preifat, gan ymgysylltu â 450+ o bobl.
🙌Diolch yn fawr i bawb a gymerodd ran, a diolch yn fawr i holl arweinwyr a chefnogwyr y digwyddiad!🤝

📝Trefnir Her Byd Natur y Ddinas yn fyd-eang gan Academi Gwyddorau Califfornia ac Amgueddfa Astudiaethau Natur Sir Los Angeles. Yn Abertawe, mae'r her wedi'i chydlynu'n lleol gan Dîm Adfer Natur Cyngor Abertawe (Evelyn Gruchala, Cydlynydd Gwirfoddol Adfer Natur)

21/05/2026

🌿 Our spring newsletter is out now 🌱
Have a read 👇
View it online: https://shorturl.at/hkXLv

✨You can pick up the next issue and say hello to the team at the Gower Show on 2 August — we’ll be in the Gower National Landscape tent.

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🌿 Mae ein cylchlythyr ar gyfer y gwanwyn bellach ar gael 🌱
Gallwch ei ddarllen isod 👇
Gweld y cylchlythyr ar-lein: https://shorturl.at/hkXLv

✨Gallwch gael gafael ar y rhifyn nesaf a dweud helô wrth y tîm yn Sioe Gŵyr ar 2 Awst – byddwn ni ym mhabell Tirwedd Genedlaethol Gŵyr.

18/05/2026

🧭 🏞️ Leading the way — then and now

🌿For 70 years, Gower and its communities have quietly shown what it means to care for a place — not just protecting what’s here, but helping to inspire something much bigger: a wider network of protected landscapes that now stretches across the UK.
🌍 Today, it is one of 46 National Landscapes — part of a family of landscapes recognised not only for their natural beauty and national importance, but for the role they play in addressing modern challenges around nature, climate and how we connect with the land.

🌌 That sense of leading the way continues closer to home. In recent years, Gower National Landscape became South Wales’s first International Dark Sky Community — a reflection of the work happening across the area to reduce light pollution and protect one of its quieter, often overlooked qualities: truly dark night skies.

🦇 These dark skies aren’t just for stargazing — they’re vital for wildlife too. Nocturnal species like bats rely on natural darkness to feed, navigate and thrive, and work within historic buildings has helped create darker, more sheltered roosting spaces.
🏡 This same care extends in other ways — supporting wildlife within the places we’ve shared for generations, from restoring habitats to creating nesting opportunities in buildings, helping species like swifts find a foothold once again.

🌱 It’s a reminder that caring for a landscape isn’t just about preserving what we already know and love, but about adapting, improving and finding new ways to protect it for the future.

🎉✨ As we celebrate 70 years, that pioneering spirit still holds true in Gower National Landscape — a place that continues to evolve while staying rooted in what makes it special.

18/05/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cymraeg
🧭Arwain y ffordd – yn y gorffennol a nawr🏞️

🌿Ers 70 mlynedd, mae Gŵyr a'i chymunedau wedi dangos yn dawel yr hyn y mae’n ei olygu i ofalu am rywle. Yn ogystal â diogelu'r hyn sydd yma, mae wedi helpu i ysbrydoli rhywbeth llawer mwy: rhwydwaith ehangach o dirweddau gwarchodedig sydd bellach yn ymestyn ledled y DU.

🌍 Heddiw, Gŵyr yw un o 46 o dirweddau cenedlaethol – rhan o deulu o dirweddau a gydnabyddir am eu harddwch naturiol a'u pwysigrwydd cenedlaethol, yn ogystal â'u cyfraniad at fynd i'r afael â heriau modern ynghylch byd natur, yr hinsawdd a sut rydym yn cysylltu â'r tir.

🌌 Mae'r ymdeimlad hwnnw o arwain y ffordd yn parhau yn yr ardal gyfagos. Dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf, Tirwedd Genedlaethol Gŵyr oedd yr ardal gyntaf yn ne Cymru i gael ei dynodi'n Gymuned Awyr Dywyll Ryngwladol, gan adlewyrchu'r gwaith a wneir ledled yr ardal i leihau llygredd golau a diogelu un o'i nodweddion sy'n cael ei hanwybyddu'n aml: awyr wirioneddol dywyll gyda'r nos.

🦇 Yn ogystal â rhoi cyfle i ni syllu ar y sêr, mae awyr dywyll hefyd yn hanfodol ar gyfer bywyd gwyllt. Mae rhywogaethau nosol fel ystlumod yn dibynnu ar dywyllwch naturiol i fwydo, cael pen ffordd a ffynnu, ac mae gwaith mewn adeiladau hanesyddol wedi helpu i greu mannau clwydo mwy tywyll a chysgodol.
🏡 Mae'r un gofal hwn yn gweithio mewn ffyrdd eraill, gan gefnogi bywyd gwyllt yn y lleoedd rydym wedi'u rhannu ers cenedlaethau, o adfer cynefinoedd i greu cyfleoedd nythu mewn adeiladau, gan helpu rhywogaethau fel gwenoliaid duon i ymgartrefu unwaith eto.

🌱 Mae'n ein hatgoffa bod gofalu am dirwedd yn ymwneud ag ymaddasu, gwella a chanfod ffyrdd newydd o ddiogelu'r hyn rydym eisoes yn ei adnabod ac yn ei garu, yn ogystal â'i gadw.

🎉✨ Wrth i ni ddathlu 70 mlynedd, mae'r ysbryd arloesol hwnnw'n dal i fod yn fyw yn Nhirwedd Genedlaethol Gŵyr – lle sy'n parhau i ddatblygu wrth gael ei wreiddio yn yr hyn sy'n ei wneud yn arbennig.

15/05/2026

⏳ A landscape with deep roots🌳

🏺Beneath Gower National Landscape lies a history that stretches back thousands of years — a place shaped over millennia, long before its designation in 1956.
🦴 It’s even home to the oldest known human ceremonial burial site in Europe — the Red Lady of Paviland, dating back around 34,000 years. Nearby, sites like Arthur’s Stone on Cefn Bryn offer a glimpse into the lives of some of the earliest communities to shape this landscape.

👣 That long history is still visible today. From ancient field patterns and historic villages to coastal landmarks like the remains of the Helvetia shipwreck at Rhossili, these features are part of what gives this landscape its distinctive character — and why protecting it goes beyond nature alone.

🛠️ Caring for this heritage is an ongoing part of the work. Between 2021 and 2026, a major conservation project at Pennard Castle helped repair the stonework, remove invasive ivy, and restore the rare plant species that grow on its walls.

📲 Across the landscape, interpretation panels and small QR-coded signs at key locations help bring these stories to life, linking to more detailed information online and allowing people to better understand and connect with what they see.

🎉✨As we celebrate 70 years of Gower National Landscape, it’s a reminder that Gower’s significance didn’t begin in 1956 — and that its protection helps carry these stories forward, shaping the landscape for generations to come.