Madison Wildlife

#GowerWatch

An on-going series dedicated to The Gower Peninsula. A story that tells the tale of its unique history, marine and coastal ecosystems and wildlife. As the first area in the whole of the UK to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Gower is known for its beautiful landscapes and coastline, internationally important habitats and geological interest and rare flora and fauna.

Welcome to #GowerWatch!

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Madison Bowden-Parry

Welcome to #GowerWatch!

Welcome to #GowerWatch, a small series dedicated to the wonderful Gower Peninsula in South Wales, U.K. Across this ongoing series, I'll be exploring the various ecosystems and their incredible biodiversity across the 70 square miles Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - the first in the UK may I add! I'll be discovering some of the species I love to look out for during different seasons, delving into the history and geology of Gower and why it's important for the wildlife that lives here and uncovering the reasons why Gower is unique and the importance of keeping it this way. Not only do I want to show my adventures across Gower through this series, I want to showcase the diversity of wildlife here. Some of which can be found across Europe, but Gower is a stronghold for a variety. I hope you enjoy the series and stay tuned for episode updates! Happy GowerWatching! Thank you to weCREATE.

#GowerWatch - South Gower's iconic seabird

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Madison Bowden-Parry

#GowerWatch - South Gower's iconic seabird

Welcome to #GowerWatch, a small series dedicated to the wonderful Gower Peninsula in South Wales, U.K. Across this ongoing series, I'll be exploring the various ecosystems, habitats and the incredible biodiversity across the 70 square miles Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - the first in the UK may I add! For the first episode, I'm raising the sails and heading out to explore the South Gower cliffs, the only way I know how! I'll be chatting about a particular species of seabird that nest on the most westerly point of Gower and of course, keeping a close eye out for other (and rather social!) marine wildlife you can encounter whilst exploring this magnificent coastline. Make sure you stay tuned for a Spring Special, where I delve into my all time favourite wildflower with quite the interesting conservation story! A huge thank you to Vinny Stelzer and Bob Wells.

#GowerWatch with the Gower Seal Group!

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Madison Bowden-Parry

#GowerWatch with the Gower Seal Group!

A story of how a passionate team of residents are not only working to advocate and protect Gower's seal populations, but nationally with other organisations to ensure grey seals are protected for the future. Across this ongoing series, I'll be exploring the various ecosystems, habitats and the incredible biodiversity across the 70 square miles Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - the first in the UK may I add! For this seal-y special, join me as I delve into the grey seals of Gower and chat to Gareth Richards, founder of the newly established community group, Gower Seal Group. The Gower Seal Group are dedicated to the education and conservation of grey seals in Gower. With their passionate team, they not only work to advocate and protect Gower's seal populations, but nationally with other organisations to ensure grey seals are protected for the future. A huge thank you Vinny Stelzer at Sky and Tide Films for filming this episode, James Weaver for the edit and Gareth Richards for his wonderful seal clips. Follow #GowerWatch behind the scenes over on my instagram: @madison_wildlife

#GowerWatch Winter Special - Yellow Brain fungus

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Madison Bowden-Parry

#GowerWatch Winter Special - Yellow Brain fungus

For PART 2 of this #GowerWatch Winter Special, I'm on the look out for the Witches Butter or more commonly known, Yellow Brain fungus! Across Wales and the UK, you can spot this fungus fruiting year round, but it's best seen in autumn and winter. The best places to find this fungus are on fallen wood or gorse and as fungus goes, it has such an interesting way of life! Stay tuned for more #GowerWatch coming soon... Thank you to weCREATE.

#GowerWatch Spring Special - Glamorgan's County Flower

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Madison Bowden-Parry

#GowerWatch Spring Special - Glamorgan's County Flower

Welcome to #GowerWatch, a small series dedicated to the wonderful Gower Peninsula in South Wales, U.K. Across this ongoing series, I'll be exploring the various ecosystem, habitats and the incredible biodiversity across the 70 square miles Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - the first in the UK may I add! In this #GowerWatch Spring Special, I'm delving into the Yellow Whitlow-grass, a species of wildflower native to Britain, but is quite unique in Gower! It also has a unique conservation story and is a species I always make sure I catch a glimpse of every year along the South Gower cliffs. A huge thank you to weCREATE www.wearewecreate.com for filming and editing this episode. Follow #GowerWatch behind the scenes over on my instagram: @madison_wildlife Thanks for watching!

The Wildlife Trusts

Delve into some weird and wonderful facts about the natural world, featued with The Wildlife Trusts.

Welcome to #WILDBytes! Episode 1: Guillemot Eggs

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The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

Welcome to #WILDBytes! Episode 1: Guillemot Eggs

Welcome to WILD Bytes, a jam-packed bitesize series dedicated to our wonderful welsh wildlife and habitats. Over this six part series, we'll chat to the team and discover some of the diverse habitats and species we have on our doorsteps. From wetland biodiversity, woodland types and heritage, to bringing back our beavers and hedgerow wildlife, we're covering the basis to help you discover #DoorstepNature in Wales. For this first episode, we join our Digital Comms Officer Madi, who is also a behavioural ecologist and naturalist, to talk about her favourite seabird and the evolution of their uniquely shaped egg! We hope you enjoy and don't forget to like, share and subscribe for more WILD Bytes! www.welshwildlife.org @The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

WTSWW volunteer Madison Bowden-Parry talks marine plastics

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The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

WTSWW volunteer Madison Bowden-Parry talks marine plastics

Our seas and marine life are suffering the impacts of society and human interference. The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales are working tirelessly to monitor and protect the semi-resident population of Bottlenose Dolphins in Cardigan Bay. But we need your help! Cardigan Bay (the base for our Living Seas work) is one of only two areas in UK waters that host a semi-resident population of bottlenose dolphins – apex predators like these are barometers of the state of the marine environment. For this reason we have been monitoring the population through our Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre (CBMWC) for over 20 years. We need your donations to carry on this work. Your donations will allow us to recruit and train volunteers to carry out research and monitoring, and to provide the necessary equipment to support them. Our volunteers also carry out regular beach cleans and are an integral part of the Living Seas Wales team. Without dedicated volunteers like Madi, we couldn't deliver our marine conservation work. You can help us to continue this vital work by donating to our #DonationsforDolphins appeal here: https://www.welshwildlife.org/appeal/donations-for-dolphins-appeal/ Together, we can be the change that we want to see. A big thank you to Madison who continues to support the Trust by volunteering and sharing her passion and dedication for our natural world.

#WILDBytes Episode 4: Beavers

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The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

#WILDBytes Episode 4: Beavers

Welcome to episode 4 of WILD Bytes, a jam-packed bitesize series dedicated to our wonderful welsh wildlife and habitats. So far, we've chatted wetland biodiversity and their natural carbon storage attributes, woodland types and their heritage and uniquely shaped seabird eggs. In this episode, we check back in with behavioural ecologist, naturalist and our Digital Comms Officer Madi, to talk all about Beavers in Wales! Lead by the Wildlife Trust Wales, Beavers were introduced into Cors Dyfi, a Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve this March 2021 as an enclosed release. If you'd like to learn more about the project and support it, see here: https://www.welshbeaverproject.org/ We hope you enjoy and don't forget to like, share and subscribe for more WILD Bytes! www.welshwildlife.org @The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

#WeirdAndWonderful - Common Cuttlefish

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The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

#WeirdAndWonderful - Common Cuttlefish

This year for #NationalMarineWeek we have various different themes dedicated to our wonderful welsh marine wildlife! For our first #WeirdAndWonderful video, we teamed up with Madison Wildlife to delve into the life of the common cuttlefish, a species that can be seen right here in welsh waters! Thank you to Matt Green for his footage. www.welshwildlife.org

YouTube Collaborations

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Young conservationists - where to start?

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The Wildlife Trusts

Young conservationists - where to start?

Young voices in conservation - careers event, delivered by young people for young people. We know it can be hard to get into conservation. We hope this event will give you an insight into the conservation sector and show you the variety of roles that exist. The event is being delivered by our youth climate change project, Stand for Nature Wales. Through our youth forums and campaigning work, we are amplifying the voices of young people and enabling climate action at a local level. This event is brought to you by Stand for Nature Wales / Radnorshire Wildlife Trust

Earth LIVE Lesson with Madison Bowden- Parry : Welsh Marine Wildlife

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Lizzie Daly Wildlife TV

Earth LIVE Lesson with Madison Bowden- Parry : Welsh Marine Wildlife

Madi is a behavioural ecologist from South Wales. Her work has ventured across an array of animals - from dolphins to otters, and zebra to fruit flies! Madi is passionate for marine life and is amazed by the diversity of marine animals that her home town has to offer. During this Earth Live Session, Madi will delve into the fascinating behaviours of some of the most fantastic marine wildlife that lives in here and share some exciting marine adventure stories with you! Website: www.madisonbowdenparry.com Instagram: @madison_wildlife Twitter: MadisonBP

Doorstep Nature with Earth Minutes

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Madison Bowden-Parry

Doorstep Nature with Earth Minutes

Instagram @madison_wildlife Twitter @MadisonBP Join me on a local wildlife adventure in The Gower Peninsula, the first area in the UK to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). We'll chat birds, cool adaptations & Gower's awesome marine wildlife. I hope you enjoy and happy wildlife-ing folks! Many thanks to Gower Coast Adventures (@GowerCoastAdventures) and Gower Seals (@gowerseals) for the use of their footage!

#PICKUPYOURCUP with us!

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Mumbles Community Council

#PICKUPYOURCUP with us!

Our newest campaign #PICKUPYOURCUP is here! This campaign aims to change the way Mumbles does takeaway and we need YOU to help us! So, we've launched our branded reusable cups (made from recycled coffee cups!), but what now you ask? BIG REUSABLE THINGS! Let's ditch the single-use coffee cups together and join the reusable culture our planet needs. Let's reduce our waste, keep our oceans clean and be a more conscious society (whilst saving money on our delicious take-away hot brews!). When you purchase our cup, to say thank you for joining us, enjoy a coffee on us. On purchase, your loyalty card automatically grants you a FREE coffee and your 10th coffee is also FREE! 🤯 You can grab your cup ad loyalty card at Pippins, Mumbles coffee, Ripples Cafe and The Touring Tea Room or directly through Mumbles Community Council. So, join us. Unite with us and #PICKUPYOURCUP! Don't forget to send us your photos with your Plastic Free Mumbles cups! Let's keep Mumbles clean. 🌍🙌 Video by TideVisuals