This is a FREE half day workshop organised by Snowdonia Active - Afternoon session
The Environmental Charter have teamed up with the RSPB and BMC to bring you some free environmental workshops aimed at celebrating chough on Anglesey's coastline.
The South Stack area and the coastline east towards Porth Dafarch, including the area known as The Range is well used by outdoor recreation providers for coasteering and sea-level traversing. The exposed cliffs and rocks of the South Stack SSSI provide a nationally important site for nesting seabirds (puffins, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars) and also for chough and peregrine falcons. The heathland on the surrounding cliff tops also supports several rare plant species.
The numbers of groups using the area for coasteering and sea-level traversing is increasing, and there is a resultant increase in disturbance of nesting birds. This workshop aims to share and enhance understanding and knowledge of the recreational use of The Range and to explore the development of best practice to ensure that adventure activities and birds can sustainably co-exist.
There will be a 1 hour indoor discussion at the start to give an introduction to the chough species, followed by a 1.5 hour outdoor field trip. Included in the session will be an introduction to the nesting birds we may encounter whilst leading groups in the outdoors with input from, Mike Raine, Plas y Brenin, Adrienne Stratford, RSPB and Elfyn Jones, BMC. The workshop will highlight common species, point out chance encounters of nesting birds, and provide spotting tips and useful facts that can be shared with clients. Information will be transferable to other locations.
These workshops are funded by the Isle of Anglesey AONB Sustainable Development Fund and the BMC.
Contributions will be from Mike Raine, Plas y Brenin, Adrienne Stratford and Laura Kudelska, RSPB and Elfyn Jones, BMC.