{"id":3992,"date":"2026-05-29T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmarthenshiremeadows.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:00:00","slug":"guided-walk-27-june-carbon-community-near-cynghordy-llandovery-plus-volunteers-needed-to-record-health-of-hawthorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/2026\/05\/29\/guided-walk-27-june-carbon-community-near-cynghordy-llandovery-plus-volunteers-needed-to-record-health-of-hawthorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided Walk 27 June  &#8211; Carbon Community near Cynghordy, Llandovery plus Volunteers needed to record health of hawthorns."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many CMG members will know of the Carbon Community near Cynghordy, Llandovery.\u00a0 But as well as the areas for experiments on carbon sequestration by tree planting, there are some very interesting grasslands there as well.\u00a0 On Saturday 27th June there will be guided walks to see the meadows, led by Dr Lizzie Wilberforce who will be well known to many CMG members.\u00a0 You will need to book a place for the event, there is a choice of a morning or afternoon walk.\u00a0 To book please go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/CarbonComMeadow26\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/CarbonComMeadow26<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also a search is on for  volunteers to observe and record the health of hawthorne in a changing world.  The Forest Research website says: &#8220;Hedgerows are one of the most recognisable features of the UK landscape \u2014 and at their heart stands hawthorn. Now, a new national research initiative is calling on volunteers to help&nbsp;strengthen our understanding&nbsp;of&nbsp;hawthorn&nbsp;resilience&nbsp;in a changing world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;project, a collaboration between Forest Research, Fera, The Tree Council, and the International Plant Sentinel Network<em>,&nbsp;<\/em>aims to assess how resilient hawthorn is to pests,&nbsp;diseases&nbsp;and environmental pressures&nbsp;and how this&nbsp;vulnerability&nbsp;may&nbsp;impact&nbsp;the surrounding treescape.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/news\/volunteers-sought-to-help-safeguard-the-future-of-uk-hedgerows\">https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/news\/volunteers-sought-to-help-safeguard-the-future-of-uk-hedgerows<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many CMG members will know of the Carbon Community near Cynghordy, Llandovery.\u00a0 But as well as the areas for experiments on carbon sequestration by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}