BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Events BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:GMT Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Wales Nature Week 5 - 13 July 2025\n\nThe dates of Wales Nature Week 2025 have been announced!\n\nPlease add the date to your events plan ning schedule. After trialling different dates over the past few years\, w e plan to stick to this calendar period\, allowing for annual weekend adju stments e.g 4 -12 July 2026.\n\nNo date will be ideal\, and it’s noted t hat there will be clashes and that there’s a lot of event activity alrea dy planned in the summer months.\n\nBalanced against this\, there is a big and growing appetite for nature across multiple areas including events\, nature exploration at specific sites\, engagement\, and social media parti cipation. There is also an appetite for Wales-specific content\, and event s that are local/hyper local and project/site specific nature content incl uding e-NGO\, LNP and community group activities and projects.\n\nApproach in 2025\nCelebrating Nature in Wales is a good hook from multiple levels from the national level to regional\, it works at community and individual level\, and is able to reflect partner activities and their specific focu s. With this in mind\, it’s planned to continue with this broad approach .\n\nEvaluation feedback\nThank you for your feedback of Wales Nature Week 2024.\n\nKey observations include:\n\n * Share dates for Wales Nature Week as early as possible\n\n\n\n * Consistency of dates is useful for planning purposes\n\n\n\n * More publicity and media outreach needed\n\ n\n\n * Share promotional materials and templates earlier\n\n\n\n * Scope for creating more digital resources to support Wales Nature Week\n\n \n\n * Event database needs more structure and configuration to be sear chable by date and region\n\n\n\n * Utilise the strength of brand Wales and regional destinations such as the Gwent Levels\, BBNPA\, Eryri etc\n\ n\n\n * Multi partner events (Nature Festivals) worked well\, sharing t he load in planning\, organising and publicity.\n\n\n\n * Utilise the c onnection people have to species and species groups such a bats\, moths\, dragonflies\, plants\, mammals\, butterflies and birds. Meadows Day (1st S aturday in July) is also a big event in the calendar.\n\n\n\n * Utilise the connection to habitats groups such as marine & coastal\, peatland\, m eadows\, urban\, Celtic Forest and woodland in general. These can be linke d to destinations - specific places for people to visit and explore nature and activities such as walking\, cycling and general well-being.\n\n\n\n * Welsh language social media posts highlighting common or colourful sp ecies were consistently popular on social media.\n\n\nTo finish on a few a bridged quotes received from the evaluation:\n\n“It’s a great opportun ity to get momentum across the country to celebrate nature”.\n\n“Raisi ng awareness of Wales being a responsible country with action and awarenes s of their precious biodiverse assets”\n\n“The partnership bioblitz wo rked well and we were pleased to have at least 20 people in attendance.” \n\n“We had a great response to the Nature Festival from the children an d teachers\; we also had a good response to our messages on social media\, especially the 'reel' on Dôl Idris meadow with the Warden of the Park\, Rhys Gwynn.”\n\n“Public engagement with events at bat night”\n\n“H aving an outdoor activity was very popular”\n\n\nAny questions? Email us with any queries you have . We're here to help you participate in Wales Nature Week!\n\nBe sure to c heck the Wales Nature Week page and social media regularly for fresh updates!\n• Instagram \n• Facebook\n• Twitter/X\n\nBackground\nEstablished in 2002\, Wales Nature Week is an annual week of nature-themed events coordinated by Wales Biodiversity Partnership . Events bring together the knowledge and enthusiasm of local wildlife exp erts to raise public awareness of nature conservation.\n\nYou can contact< mailto:Sean.McHugh@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk> us at any time if you wish to be removed from the Wales Nature Week partner list or do not want to r eceive any further mailings by replying to this email and requesting to be removed from the mailing list.\n\n UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000DCAF27D0DCFDDA01000000000000000 0100000003AFBDAE4BB6CC047A48E6F46B9243DFF SUMMARY:Wales Nature Week DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250705 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250714 CLASS:PUBLIC PRIORITY:5 DTSTAMP:20260517T235614Z TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 LOCATION: X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0 X-MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE:DEFAULT X-MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED:FALSE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Love your Yew Week 9th - 15th February 2026\n\n\n UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000010B862E35E73DC01000000000000000 01000000064A3ED336532B546915CFB2E9D553CC7 SUMMARY:Love your Yew Week DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260116 CLASS:PUBLIC PRIORITY:5 DTSTAMP:20260517T235614Z TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 LOCATION: X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0 X-MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE:DEFAULT X-MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED:FALSE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR