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Iolo will present his talk ‘The Wildlife of Wales’ to GOS on Wednesday January 22nd 2020 at the Lysaght Institute, Newport. Tickets are on sale at indoor meetings and by post. Tickets are available to members and non-members. For further details and pricing see events calendar.

Curlews were colour-ringed by a BTO/WWT team on the Usk estuary in 2015/16. There haven’t been many re-sightings of these birds although recently there have been a few reports from Goldcliff – one of these birds is aged at least 22 years! WWT has now started a Severn Curlew project, raising chicks in captivity for release into the wild. 50

The South Wales Otter Trust are monitoring otters across South Wales and collecting data which is then passed on to local wildlife trusts, NRW and to SEWBReC. If you see otters please put your sighting on their facebook page together with a map reference :https://www.facebook.com/groups/SouthWalesOtterTrust/