Meetings
One-off session on Biodiversity and Rewilding in Wales
This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.
Note: Meeting Agenda can change at short notice. Particularly where future meeting dates are indicated more than a week in advance. Please check before planning to attend a Committee Meeting that the item you are interested in has not been moved.
Meeting: 10/12/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)
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4 Written submission from National Farmers' Union (NFU) Cymru in relation to biodiversity and rewilding
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 03/12/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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- Transcript for 03/12/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd
3 Correspondence from the Chair of the Petitions Committee in relation to biodiversity
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)
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5 Biodiversity and Rewilding: Evidence paper from Farmers' Union Wales
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 7)
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- Transcript for 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd
Biodiversity and Rewilding: Consideration of evidence received under items 2, 3 and 4
Minutes:
7.1 Members considered the evidence heard under items 2,3 and 4.
Meeting: 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)
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- Transcript for 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd
4 Biodiversity and Rewilding: Evidence session 2: COPA (Cymunedau Oll Pumlumon a'r Ardal) Committee
Cllr Elwyn Vaughan – COPA (Cymunedau Oll Pumlumon a'r Ardal) Committee
Supporting documents:
- Paper - COPA (Cymunedau Oll Pumlumon a'r Ardal) Committee (Welsh only), item 4
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- Paper - COPA (Cymunedau Oll Pumlumon a'r Ardal) Committee (Internal only)
Minutes:
4.1 The Committee heard evidence from the COPA (Cymunedau Oll Pumlumon a'r Ardal) Committee.
Meeting: 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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- Transcript for 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd
3 Biodiversity and Rewilding: Evidence session 1 - Environmental Sector
Clive Faulkner, Chief Executive Officer - Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
Hilary Kehoe, Wales Chair - Nature Friendly Farming Network
Jerry Langford, Public Affairs Manager - Woodland Trust
Siân Stacey, Project Development Officer - Summit to Sea
Arfon Williams, Head of Land and
Sea Policy – Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Cymru
Supporting documents:
- Paper - Wildlife Trusts Wales, item 3
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- Paper - Nature Friendly Farming Network, item 3
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- Paper - Woodland Trust, item 3
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- Paper - Summit to Sea, item 3
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- Paper - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Cymru, item 3
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Minutes:
3.1 The Committee
heard evidence from Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, Nature Friendly Farming
Network, Woodland Trust, Summit to Sea, and the Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds (RSPB) Cymru.
Meeting: 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)
- Webcast for 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd
- Transcript for 19/11/2020 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd
2 Introductory briefing by Rewilding Britain
Prof Alastair Driver, Director – Rewilding Britain
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 30 , View reasons restricted (2/1)
Minutes:
2.1 The Committee received a briefing from Prof Driver,
Rewilding Britain on biodiversity and rewilding.
2.2 Members asked questions and discussed key issues identified from the briefing.