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11 June 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Solar energy

… per cent of its total area could fall within development boundaries if all were built. The Gwent Wildlife Trust is gravely concerned about the potential damage of these developments, and they are right to be concerned. The evidence … birds were seen in the area, but they have not been seen since. Natalie Buttriss from the Gwent Wildlife Trust sums up the Plaid Cymru position on this to a T when she says: 'Of course we are …

7 May 2025, Plenary

Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030'

… pleased to champion here in the Senedd. And through the work of organisations such as the Gwent Wildlife Trust, they've been successfully reintroduced back into sites such as Magor Marsh nature reserve, and have then spread outwards … deal of concern to the wildlife trust, local communities and environmental groups in general. Research by the Gwent Wildlife Trust found that maps indicate that, if all the solar development proposals currently on the table were built …

4 February 2026, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

… that project to continue. But we've also match-funded the development work needed for the Gwent Wildlife Trust to take forward a community asset transfer of Welsh Government-owned farmland on the Gwent levels. Why is this …

4 February 2026, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

… energy and it's an important component of combating the climate crisis, but, as Mike Webb of Gwent Wildlife Trust has said, you can't destroy the environment to save the environment. I echo the calls to issue …

23 June 2025, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Post-legislative scrutiny of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Evidence session 1—academic panel

… the decision, but in the wider view I would argue that it did, because it gave the Gwent Wildlife Trust and the other environmental objectors and objectors to that scheme a platform from which to make these arguments …