Project: RWT Pentwyn

A place of hope for people and nature

Imagine a landscape buzzing, chirping and crawling with wildlife. A landscape that brings and maintains hope- hope for a better world for nature and people.

The land at Pentwyn will be transformed into a humming, buzzing and chirruping oasis where the calls of threatened birds can be heard once more.

Wild Mosaic is part of a wider campaign to support the restoration of full Pentwyn site (65 hectacres). You can find out more and other ways to help at rwtwales.org

Pentwyn future
© Jeroen Helmer / Ark Nature

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RWT Pentwyn consists of 4 plots broken into 3x3m squares ("tiles") of land.

Come and join us on this journey into wildness...

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Meadow Pipit Ffridd

259 of 340 tiles available

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Marsh into Lugg

261 of 344 tiles available

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Hilltop Corner

246 of 328 tiles available

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Waterfall on the Lugg

260 of 329 tiles available

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Featured Plot

Meadow Pipit Ffridd

259 of 340 tiles available

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Featured Plot

Marsh into Lugg

261 of 344 tiles available

Project Updates

RWT Pentwyn has 70 related updates.

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Meadow Browns in 'Meadow Pipit Ffridd'

Last year the whole site was full of Meadow Brown butterflies...

The fallen oak is still alive

Red and black froghopper

A well named bug that is red, black and....

The strange scorpionfly

This common fly is worth a closer look. It's quite pretty, but has a couple of startling...

Bumblebee hoverfly

This hoverfly is an excellent mimic, but upon closer inspection...

Red-Headed Cardinal Beetle, looking for prey

This Red-Headed Cardinal Beetle is balancing on the....

Azure Damselfly

This beautiful damselfly looks surprisingly...

Dandelions in spring

Dandelions are one of the most...

A 360 walk round 'Waterfall on the Lugg' April 2024

about 1 month ago

Some of the spring flowers in Hilltop Corner

about 1 month ago

Peacock butterfly

about 1 month ago

Green-veined white butterfly

about 2 months ago

Orange-tip butterfly

I caught a glimpse of this beautiful butterfly early in the spring. I didn't...

Sunrise in Pentwyn

Belted Galloways and new fencing

Update on forestry work: tree planting

Last month I showed you some of the tree felling happening in the conifer plantation, now we've been able to do some tree...

Badger caught on camera trap

We caught a glimpse of our first badger. We've known there were likely to be a few on the site but....

Spreading wildflower seed

Forestry work near Hilltop Corner

Lesser celandines - a first sign of spring

Robin singing in the morning

Two drone views of the fallen oak

I've now been able to use my drone to give a 360 view of the magnificant oak that fell in the waterfall on the lugg site at the end of...

A drone's eye view of the pigs disturbance of the soil

This drone footage helps show how much impact the pigs are having. This is centred in on ///fills.vibes.crispier

Breaking through - Pigs digging for food

One of the ways pigs help accelerate rewilding is by...

Breaking through - Belted Galloway hoof prints

One of the ways bigger livestock like the Belted Galloways can accelerate rewilding by...

Pigs rewilding in action!

Muntjac deer

Owl caught in a camera trap

We managed to catch a glimpse of an Owl in one of our camera traps in the 'Waterfall on the Lugg' part of the site....

New Year thank you from Hilltop Corner

New year thank you from 'Waterfall on the Lugg'

New Year thank you from 'Marsh to Lugg'

New year thank you from Meadow Pippit Ffridd

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Spot the bird!

Welsh hill ponies now on site

Is the fallen oak still alive?

Tamworth pigs introduced

In a secret location near the 'Marsh to Lugg' part of the site...
A pair of Tamworth pigs

Tortoise bug on grass

Hilltop Corner in the late summer

Crickets and grasshoppers

How to tell the difference between crickets and grasshoppers

In the summer and early autumn you will be familiar with the chirping in the grasses...

A Roesel's Bush Cricket

Green-veined White and a Globetail

Common Green Grasshoppers

Four-spot Orbweaver in 'Marsh to Lugg'

Orb weavers in Hilltop Corner

Peacock butterfly

A tree falls

A quick tour of the Wild Mosaic subscription

A look round Waterfall on the Lugg: Butterflies, bracken and a buzzard

about 1 year ago

Meadow Brown butterflies

about 1 year ago

Spring flowers in Meadow Pipit Ffridd

about 1 year ago

Buttercups

about 1 year ago

Hawthorn in full bloom

about 1 year ago

Crane flies enjoying Hilltop Corner in May

about 1 year ago

Unexpected signs of life

about 1 year ago

Using tiles for ecological surveys

about 1 year ago

Camera traps

over 1 year ago

Water

over 1 year ago

Some of the restoration work we've been able to fund

over 1 year ago

Livestock and rewilding

over 1 year ago

Field voles

over 1 year ago

360 images of the Pentwyn site

over 1 year ago

Tree mix adjacent to Meadow Pipit Ffridd

over 1 year ago

Kites flying over Meadow Pipit Ffridd

over 1 year ago

View of Meadow Pipit Ffridd - December 2022

over 1 year ago

Make your garden or street wilder!

over 1 year ago

A vision for the future

over 1 year ago

Autumn fungi in Pentwyn

over 1 year ago

Autumn is a time to see fungi. Here are some examples of fungi in the Pentwyn site, and some of the more surprising wonders they hold