Over 25 volunteers turned up to help out with vital management work at the water vole project site on 1st May. Volunteers from Keep Wales Tidy, the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales and Swansea University all helped with path maintenance, fixing gates and litter picking to ensure that the site is safe to use this summer. It is hoped that continued collection of litter will further discourage the fly-tipping of material that occurs at the site entrance.

The ponds that the Environment Agency created are vegetating up already and should soon provide useful extra habitat for the water voles to expand into.

The brownfield area that was cleared for use as a temporary car park for the new Scarlets rugby ground has not, as yet, been used and it looks like valuable habitat may have been lost unnecessarily. Nature, however, can bounce back and it will be interesting to monitor the species as they recolonise the area.