Organic Wales – organic Welsh living!

A film showing life for families building a home in a Pembrokeshire eco village is being premiered at cinemas.

Residents won planning permission in 2009 to build a community of nine smallholdings at Glandwr designed to be low impact and self-sufficient.

Plans for a cull of badgers in parts of mid and west Wales to help tackle TB in cattle have been approved by assembly members. Assembly government proposals to introduce a similar scheme last year were defeated in the High Court by the Badger Trust. Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones said she had decided to [...]

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Plans to build 23 new wind farms and an infrastructure of pylons to support them are in danger of ripping some Montgomeryshire communities apart, say those who support the developments.

Protests have been staged against three controversial wind farm applications as they were discussed by councillors in Powys.

The applications for Llanbrynmair, Llaithdu and Llandinam will be decided by the UK government because they are set to generate over 50 megawatts.

The council cabinet decided to formally oppose all three planning applications.

RenewableUK Cymru said the decision was a blow to many businesses that stood to benefit from the developments.

People are being warned to keep off a popular lake after a farm vehicle overturned, spilling 400 litres of a chemical into a nearby drainage ditch.

Tests are being carried out on the water at Llangorse Lake near Brecon after the incident involving diluted herbicide.

Public Health Wales said people should stay off the lake as a precaution until the test results were known.

Llangorse Lake is a popular location for water sports and with anglers.

Neonicotinoid chemicals in pesticides are believed to harm bees and the European Commission says they should be restricted to crops not attractive to bees and other pollinators.

A beach has been closed after a tank on a farm in Ceredigion burst, leaking 15,000 litres of slurry.

The slurry found its way into a small stream leading to the sea at South Beach in New Quay which has been cordoned off.

Fishermen on the River Towy in west Wales are being urged to join the battle against an invasive plant growing along riverbanks.

Experts say the Himalayan Balsam plant swamps native species.

Some of Wales’s most threatened birds are continuing to decline, according to the charity RSPB.

More than 30,000 people across Wales helped gather sightings of bird species for the charity in January.

The results show some of the most threatened “red-list” birds are continuing to drop in numbers.

Starlings had hit an all time low in 2012 – and that position worsened in 2013, with numbers dropping by 15%.