Media Archive
A summary of the media stories to date about the LIFE project:
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1 - "Climate change hope for bog plan" BBC News website 27/5/07
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2 - "Team to rejuvenate ancient blanket bogs" Western Mail 28/5/07
3 - "Bog plans vital for climate change" Daily Post 29/5/07
4 - "£2.5m project restores bog life" Daily Post 31/5/07
5 - "Breathing LIFE into blanket bog" Farmers Guardian 5/6/07
6 - "Breathing LIFE into blanket bog" RSPB News web site 25/5/07
7 - "Welsh bog standards" Country and Border Life July 07
8 - "Bogglingly important habitat is celebrated" RSPB media releases web site 20 July 2007
9 - "LIFE Active blanket bog in Wales Project" - project summary in the
International Mire Conservation Group Newsletter Aug 2007
10 - "More bog and heath" RSPB Birds magazine August 2007
11 - "Breathing LIFE into blanket bog" Y Barcud magazine August 2007
12 - "Protecting an Internationally Rare Habitat in Mid Wales Active Blanket Bog in Wales Project" Pool Card Update Sept 2007
13 - "Chance to learn about bog habitat" Shropshire Star 29 Aug 2007
14 - "LIFE Active blanket bog in Wales Project" - project summary in the International Peat Society's newsletter Peat News 25 October 2007
15 - "Improving the Bog Standard" Sheep Farmer the journal of the National Sheep Association Nov/Dec 2007
16 - "Blanket Bogs - getting active" Natur Cymru The Nature of Wales Winter 2007
17 - "Active blanket Bog in Wales" - The EU What's in it for me? 2007
18 - "Town Talk - Ramblers" article describing a talk given to Oswestry ramblers Association on the project, in Oswestry Advertiser Nov 2007
19 - "Protecting Wales' Special Places" - Western Mail 21 Nov 2007
20 - "Breathing LIFE into Welsh blanket bog" - Looking to the Hills, Dec 2007
21 - "Chance to learn about wetlands" Shropshire Star 8 Jan 2008
22 - "Families flock to Lake Vyrnwy" Pool Card Update Feb 2008
23 - "What's going on...." Oswestry Advertiser 18 March 2008
24 - "Bog project will improve water quality, benefit wildlife and reduce lamb losses" Gwlad issue 72 April 2008
25 - "Ditches blocked in an effort to bring back bog" Daily Post 29 Jan 2009
26 - "Blanket bog comes to LIFE" Y Barcud February 2009
27 - "Bwrlwm gwaith ar gorstiroedd Cymru" Natur Cymru Spring 2009
28 - "Galw ar holl ffermwyr yr ucheldir" Yr Ysgub May 2009
29 - "Tir Gofal farmers lose out to Glastir"Daily Post 28 May 2009
30 - "Glastir - the way forward?" Welsh Farmer Y Tir 3 July 2009
31 - "All new Glastir Scheme!" - FWAG Cymru Summer 2009
32 - "Bog standards" - Daily Post 4 Feb 2010
33 - "Euro guests fly in for RSPB project" - Advertiser 9 Feb 2010
34 - "Don't get bogged down" - Border and Country Life July 2010
35 - International Bog Day - Border and Country Life July 2010
36 - "Nature Watch: The RSPB stand at the Royal Welsh shows how farmers can improve the fortunes of our rarer birds" - Western Mail 20 July 2010
37 - "Farming and rural news in brief" - Daily Post 22 July 2010
Radio Interviews
1. Blanket Bog LIFE Project - Radio Wales 29 May 2007 (Jared Wilson)
2. Blanket Bog LIFE Project - Radio Cymru 29 May 2007 (Nick Young CCW)
3. Blanket Bog LIFE Project - Radio Cymru 2 June 2007 (Jan Evans)
4. International Bog Day and LIFE project - Radio Wales 26 July 2007 (Jared Wilson)
5. International Bog Day and LIFE project - Radio Shropshire 28-29 July 2007 (Jared Wilson)
6. Blanket Bog LIFE project - Radio Wales Science Cafe 4 June 2008 (Jared Wilson)
7. European School Teachers Visit project - BBC Radio Cymru, Galwad Cynnar 30th January 2010 (Jan Evans)
TV coverage
1. Filming of LIFE project by BBC for Countryfile program, which was shown on Sunday 11th February 2007 on BBC 1.
2. BBC Wales Today reported on the visit by the Welsh Assembly Government Sustainability Group's visit to the LIFE Project on 15 May 2008.
3. Mike Walker, RSPB Senior Site Manager at Lake Vyrnwy, discussed the LIFE project on BBC Wales Today on Tuesday 29 July 2008, when the program visited the reserve as part of their summer tour of Wales.
4. The LIFE project was featured talking to the Welsh Soils Discussion Group - BBC Wales Today 6 July 2010
5. The LIFE project was featured talking to the Welsh Soils DIscussion Group - S4C Newyddion 6 July 2010
Vyrnwy is Outstanding!
Published on 30/Jul/2010 What a term! The LIFE education team has worked remarkably hard this summer, 678 children have been Read MoreLIFE at the Royal Welsh Show 2010
Published on 26/Jul/2010 The LIFE Project has just returned from spending a very busy and successful four days at the Read MoreInternational Bog Day Festival
Published on 28/Jun/2010 International Bog Day Festival Sculpture Park, Lake Vyrnwy 31st July 2010 11- Read More
