Natural Resources Wales

Afan Forest Park
Afan Forest Park

AFAN FOREST: NRW sets out ten years of felling and replanting for the valley’s forest and bike trails

Natural Resources Wales has published its draft plan for what gets felled, replanted and restored over the next decade. Comments…

A black short-necked oil beetle on moss among dry grass stems
bees

CASTLEMARTIN: Rare beetle that hitches rides on bees found breeding at its only Welsh home

Earlier searches found only dead adults. Then, on the project’s last survey, they spotted larvae.

A Natural Resources Wales branded van parked outside the body's offices
AMG Resources

NRW: Welsh Tories want the watchdog that polices Withyhedge and the Llanelli fly site scrapped

Andrew RT Davies says the regulator is “unfit for purpose” and should go the way Conservatives in England plan for…

An NRW officer in orange walks across exposed waste at Withyhedge Landfill with gulls overhead and capped slopes behind
Haverfordwest

WITHYHEDGE: Landfill overfilled by six metres gets its permit rewritten to fit

The site ranked the worst-performing permitted installation in Wales two years running was found to be holding an estimated 406,500…

A wide gravel riverbed exposed by low water on a tree-lined Welsh river
drought

DROUGHT: South-west Wales moves into recovery as the rain revives its rivers

Natural Resources Wales says rivers across the south west are nearing normal flows after the recent rain. South-east Wales, north…

Aerial view of the AMG Resources waste site in Llanelli alongside a photo of Cllrs Louvain Roberts and Sean Rees holding petition papers outside the New Cornish Arms
AMG Resources

LLANELLI: Petition launched to move or shut the site blamed for summer’s fly plague

Glanymor councillors Sean Rees and Louvain Roberts say enforcement alone is not enough, and want the future of the AMG…

A Natural Resources Wales branded van parked outside the body's offices
data breach

DATA BREACH: NRW published staff ethnicity, religion and sexuality data by mistake

Anyone who worked for Natural Resources Wales between April 2013 and March 2018 is being warned that their diversity monitoring…

A Natural Resources Wales officer in hi-vis and a white hard hat looks through the fence at waste piles and machinery at the AMG Resources site in Llanelli
AMG Resources

LLANELLI: Waste ban lifted as watchdog says AMG site no longer fuelling fly swarms

Natural Resources Wales has withdrawn the suspension notice that stopped certain waste arriving at the AMG Resources site, saying conditions…

Discarded white goods, a red microwave, broken fence panels and piles of brick rubble dumped on scrubland
Carmarthenshire Council

LLWYNHENDY: Fly-tipper who abused inspectors spared jail after 16 months of dumping at Erw Las

Christian Astill kept piling waste onto land near Llanelli even after regulators told him to stop, and police had to…

The River Towy running low with wide gravel banks exposed between the water and green riverbanks
drought

RIVER TOWY: Extra water released from Llyn Brianne as drought leaves river running low

Flows below Nantgaredig will rise by about 50% for 30 days, drawing on a water bank set aside to protect…

A wide gravel riverbed exposed by low water on a tree-lined Welsh river
drought

DROUGHT: All of Wales now in drought as July heads for driest in 190 years

Natural Resources Wales has extended drought status to the whole country, with rivers including the Cleddau, Cothi and Teifi exceptionally…