Mae Twyni ar Symud yn brosiect newydd cyffrous ac uchelgeisiol i adfer rhai o’r twyni tywod pwysicaf yng Nghymru a Lloegr er lles pobl, cymunedau a bywyd gwyllt.
Mae llawer ohonom yn gyfarwydd â thwyni tywod ac yn eu coleddu fel tirweddau arfordirol hardd, ond maent hefyd yn bwysig am eu bod yn ferw o fioamrywiaeth. Mae’r twyni hyn yn noddfa i rywogaethau unigryw a phrin sydd wedi addasu’n berffaith i fyw mewn tywod. Mewn twyn iach, gallech ddod o hyd i degeirianau, llyffantod, adar a madfallod yn ffynnu!
Ond mae’r creaduriaid arbennig hyn mewn perygl. Dros amser, mae llawer o dwyni tywod wedi cael eu gorchuddio gan wair a phrysgoed sydd wedi sefydlogi’r tywod yn ormodol, ac mae rhywogaethau ymledol wedi llethu rhai cynhenid. Gwyddom bellach fod ar dwyni angen ardaloedd o dywod sy’n symud yn rhydd, ynghyd â llaciau twyni cysgodol iach, ac ardaloedd ble mae’r llystyfiant yn isel er mwyn cynnal y bywyd gwyllt amrywiol. Rydym yn defnyddio technegau cadwraeth arloesol i ailfywiogi’r twyni ac i wneud eu tywod symudol yn gartref perffaith unwaith eto i’n bywyd gwyllt sydd dan fygythiad.
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Top Half-Term Activities for Families in the Sand Dunes
This October half term, we’ve chosen some of our favourite family activities for you and the kids, from exploring the dunes in search of some of the fantastic autumn plants and fungi that are growing right now, to downloading some of our sand dune wildlife spotter activity sheets!
Photographing Butterflies in North Wales – An Annual Obsession
Richard Glynne Jones explores the threats that our butterflies face with a changing climate and increased habitat loss, and shares his passion for identifying and photographing the species he spots in North Wales.
Footprints in the Sand – A jewellery journey
There is something about sand and sand dunes that has always captured my imagination. The way sand flows through your fingertips, the mesmerising way it falls through an egg-timer and how the invisible wind can create huge, graceful yet fickle dunes.
Journey to Dynamic Dunescapes: Tim Braund, Engagement Manager
What I had not appreciated was how rare, vulnerable and at risk these ‘unseen’ landscape gems are, the most at-risk habitat in Europe; over-stabilised and with reducing areas of bare and moving sand with associated losses in biodiversity and some species barely holding on as a result. The chance to be part of an ambitious large-scale project was too good an opportunity to miss.
Glow Patrol: on the hunt for Cornwall’s amazing glow worms!
I had heard that there were glow worms on The Towans sand dunes, but had never seen them myself. So when West Cornwall Reserves Manager Nick Marriott put me in touch with a local glow worm enthusiast, I decided I needed to find out more!
Northern dune tiger beetle: The fastest beetle in the world?
Did you know that here on the Sefton Coast, we have possibly one of the World’s fastest beetles? Around 2cm long, with colourful reddish wing cases with three pale bands and iridescent green underneath, its the northern dune tiger beetle Cicindela hybrida!
Painting dunes: art inspired by Studland
Blog I grew up in North Devon so the dunes have been part of my life for many years. Firstly with Braunton Burrows and then Woolacombe, both magical places. My childhood summers are memories around picnics in the dunes and long balmy evenings watching the sun go down with friends. The hillocks of dunes topped…
Cumbrian Images: A Lockdown Photography Story
Blog In February this year if you’d asked my wife Carol and me what we’d be doing with our spare time in June, “photographing nature” and starting a new venture would have been a long way down the list of activities! With me working full-time in the Barrow shipyard, evenings normally consisted of watching TV…
Braunton Burrow’s important role in the Second World War D-Day Landings
North Devon, in common with various other coastal locations of the UK, was used to train soldiers for the D-Day Landings. The expansive four square miles of sand dunes at Braunton Burrows became the “Assault Training Center”.
A Day in the Life of a Reserve Warden; Jim Turner, North Walney NNR
I’ve walked up the Eastern side of the National Nature Reserve which forms one edge of the channel between Walney and the mainland. Calm water here allows sediments to deposit and form an excellent saltmarsh with distinct zones of vegetation. Today it is awash with painted lady butterflies nectaring on the sea lavender.
Top Half-Term Activities for Families in the Sand Dunes
This October half term, we’ve chosen some of our favourite family activities for you and the kids, from exploring the dunes in search of some of the fantastic autumn plants and fungi that are growing right now, to downloading some of our sand dune wildlife spotter activity sheets!
What’s new at Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR
In the spring of 2020, the progress of Dynamic Dunescapes project work in Lincolnshire has of course been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s an update on what we have been able to do at Saltfleetby-Theedlethorpe NNR.
WW2 Aircraft Artifact Found in the Sefton Coast Sand Dunes
As we celebrate 75 years since the end of the Second World War in 2020, one of the Dynamic Dunescapes project sites offered up a previously unearthed piece of wartime history, buried in the dunes for over three quarters of a century.
New fences protect toads and help cattle in Lincolnshire
In February this year our Lincolnshire team installed a series of new fences in carefully-chosen sites across the dunes at Saltfleetby-Theedlethorpe. The purpose of these new fences is to protect certain areas, including some of the pools that are used as key breeding areas for the dunes’ population of rare natterjack toads. The fences are…