Coed Tan-y-Bryn is a woodland nature reserve in the Cambrian uplands of Wales. The site is in the process of been transformed from a forestry plantation with very little diversity into a native woodland with a mosaic of wildlife habitats.

Over the last five years we have thinned and felled over 4000 Sitka Spruce and liberated hundreds of native trees. We are well on our way to our target of planting 3000 native trees and we hope to convert the site to 70%+ native tree species by 2020

 

We have now recorded over 300 species with nearly a dozen of those included in the national biodiversity action plan, these along with several other species form the basis of our management plan over the coming years.

 

The aim is to provide as many habitats and food sources for native wildlife as possible. We plan to create various new habitats over the coming years including more wildlife hedges, south facing earth banks, dead wood piles, forest glades, reptile hibernation sites, dead hedges, grassland habitats and a half acre bee sanctuary.

 

We have discovered many grassland and heath land species such as the scarce “Lunar yellow under-wing” which gives us a glimpse of what the site may have supported before the plantation was created. We are now opening up sections of the woodland to restore some of these important scrub and heath land habitats.

 

Coed Tan-y-Bryn has volunteer days and longer work-parties throughout the year.

 

The help of the following organisations has been invaluable:

 

The Wildlife Trust, The British Dragonfly society, Ceredigion Council, The Forestry Commission, RSPB, West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre,

The Ceredigion Moth Group, TidyTowns and The Woodland Trust.