RSPB Cymru celebrates a historic land purchase in mid Wales - RSPB

Landmark acquisition creates a connected landscape for wildlife at RSPB Gwenffrwd-Dinas nature reserve.

On Wales Nature Week, we’re celebrating the successful purchase of Gallt-y-bere, a 96-hectare area of diverse habitats in the Elenydd in mid Wales. Gallt-y-bere is a wildlife-rich gem, home to internationally important habitats and rare species, from rare Atlantic oak woodland, also known as Celtic rainforest, to ffridd and peat bogs. It is also a stronghold for Pied Flycatchers, a summer migrant that thrives in oak woodland, as well as a wealth of other wildlife, including Cuckoos, Wood Warblers, Pine Martens and Whinchats.

Completing the missing link

We have been active at Gwenffrwd-Dinas for more than a century, first by supporting the Kite Committee in its efforts to protect Red Kites, and later by purchasing two areas of land, Gwenffrwd and Dinas, to create the RSPB Gwenffrwd-Dinas nature reserve. Gallt-y-bere lies between these two areas and, for the first time in almost 60 years, we are able to protect the site as one connected landscape.

Bringing Gallt-y-bere into conservation management will deliver significant benefits for wildlife by improving habitat connectivity across the reserve and creating new links between existing habitats.