Urban garden wildlife survey starts
People living in Carmarthen or Llanelli are being asked to look out for a leaflet coming through their doors asking for help to find out about wildlife living in their gardens.
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales and Carmarthenshire County Council have teamed together to find out about wildlife living in urban gardens.
The ‘Carmarthenshire Urban Garden Wildlife Survey’, aims to discover all about the hidden wildlife in the county’s two largest towns.
Biodiversity Officer Isabel Macho said that gardens provide a refuge for a huge variety of wildlife. In towns, a large proportion of available wildlife habitat is provided by gardens, which are the ‘green lungs’ of urban areas. Gardens and allotments can also be important wildlife corridors in a built up area. Over recent years gardens have become increasingly important habitats for wildlife, including for many species now rare in the wider countryside.
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