National development
The Cynefin Scheme
The Welsh Government’s Cynefin scheme is based on community based place coordinators with the role of conducting local visioning and planning events with both the identified communities and the local stakeholder groups for making local environmental improvements. These will result in action plans of work for each area and a national database to ensure that at any time that leaders, participants and the taxpayer can see what has been achieved locally and nationally in relation to the resource inputs.
OPAL
The Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network is developing a wide range of local and national programmes to encourage people from all backgrounds to get back in touch with nature. The project also generates valuable scientific data concerning the state of our environment. By bringing scientists, amateur-experts, local interest groups and the public closer together, lasting relationships are being formed and environmental issues of local and global relevance are being explored. OPAL is in the process of placing three citizen scientists in Wales.
Local Authority community biodiversity officers
Two Welsh local authorities have appointed officers to their biodiversity planning departments specifically to promote community projects which enhance local wildlife.
Royal Horticulural Society
The RHS has compiled two downloadable plant lists to help gardeners identify plants that will provide nectar and pollen for bees and many other types of pollinating insects: