Subject index – issues 1-50
References in bold are authors or subjects of main articles. References in italics are scientific names or book/journal titles.
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WAG see Welsh Assembly Government
wagtail, grey, 4:27
Wales at Water’s Edge by Gower & Moore, 45:50
Wales Biodiversity Group, 1:39 see also Wales Biodiversity Partnership
Wales Biodiversity Partnership, 20:23; 34:45
Wales Biodiversity Partnership Award, 13:45
Wales Biodiversity Week
2002, 4:46
2003, 6:46
Wales Coast Path, 42:31; 45:4, 26-27; 47:36-7
birdwatching from, 45:32(c)
damage to, 50:51
Wales Deer Initiative, 18:22
Wales Environment Link, 10:44; 19:45; 20:23
Wales Fungus Day
2012, 45:46-7
2013, 49:50
Wales Mammal Group, 15:47
Wales Raptor Study Group, 18:4ff
Wales Rural Development Plan, 31:20
Wales Spatial Plan, 20:22
Walia, 22:19
Walker, Ian, 20:33
Walker, T.G., 50:30(c)
walking
guides, 45:39
personal accounts, 36:33; 38:23; 45:4, 36, 39; 47:36; 49:39
Walking Mid Wales’ Nature Reserves by Jane Griffiths, 32:44
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 40:19, 20
Wallace, Ian, 23:36
Walmsley, Clive, 2:19
Walters, John, 12:44
warbler
aquatic, 25:22
Cetti’s, 1:46
grasshopper, 16:45
Radde’s, 27:45
willow, 9:47; 16:45
yellow-browed, 29:41
wardens, work of, 41:18(c)
warfarin, 1:24ff; 6:35
Waring, Townsend & Lewington, authors, 9:45
wasps, 34:23
water
chemistry, 1:20
management of, 2:13; 3:41; 5:10
nitrate levels, 1:20
phosphate levels, 1:20
purification, 1:20
water quality, 41:8
water bailiff, 27:33(c)
water buffalo, 12:9ff; 43:32
water crowfoot, three-lobed, 6:17, 29ff; 18:9; 28:47
Water Framework Directive, 31:25; 50:10-12
water germander, 18:9
Water Resources Strategy for Wales, 1:34
Waterford, 22:13
Watkins, Ruth, 30:9
Watts, Phil, 36:4
Waun Fignen Felen, 42:21, 22(c)
Waun Las Nature Reserve, 46:46
Waunfawr, 50:49(c)
wave power, 28:18
wavy hair grass, 23:32
waxcaps, 9:37ff; 13:19; 21:6ff
Hygrocybe spadicea, 21:7
weasel, 13:47; 31:39
weather
extreme, 48:8; 50:13
records, 50:13, 28(c)
website creation, waleswildlife.com, 42:3
website review, marine bivalves, 41:44
Wells, Derek, 26:13
Welsh Assembly Government elections May 2003, 6:41
Welsh Assembly Government, 4:43; 5:10,11, 43; 6:46; 22:48; 28:42; 29:43; 37:35
Welsh Black cattle, 12:31; 29:24; 30:10ff; 38:20ff
Welsh Black Grouse Recovery Project, 5:19
Welsh Botanology, 11:8-9(c)
Welsh Conservation Management Conference, 28:26; 29:46
Welsh Environment Strategy, 37:35
Welsh Institute of Countryside &Conservation Management, see NATUR
Welsh Mammal Strandings, 5:45
Welsh Mountain Zoo, 6:43; 19:39
Welsh Pony & Cob Society, 27:12ff
Welsh poppy, 11:46
Welsh Stone Forum, 15:36(c)
Welsh Wildlife Centre, Cilgerran, 12:9ff
Welsh Wildlife in Trust ed. Bill Lacey, 43:8
Welsh Woods and Forests by William Linnard, 3:42
Wentwood forest, 17:34
West Angle Bay, 50:46
West Wales Field Society, 2:5
Westcott, Stephen, 1:44
Wetland Bird Survey, 40:6
Wetland Ecosystem Treatment System, 45:28
wetlands, 6:24; 11:17; 11:22; 29:43; 41:46
Wetlands for Wales, 16:15
whale
bottlenose, 8:44
humpback, 27:47
killer, 10:45; 48:50
minke, 8:44
pilot, 19:46
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, 12:31; 43:45
Whalley, Paul, 11:42, 43(c)
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us? by Tony Juniper, 48:40
wheatear, 7:45; 23:45; 42:48
Wheeler, David, 12:18
whelk processing, 7:39
When Hippo Was Hairy by Nick Greaves, 3:42
When Lion Could Fly by Nick Greaves, 3:42
When the tide goes out, CCW report, 26:47
Where to Watch Birds – Wales by David Saunders & Jon Green, 30:44
whey, 41:5
whimbrel, 9:47
whinchat, 42:48
whitebeam, 7:17; 30:40
Ley’s, 35:23, 46
new discoveries, 47:43
Welsh species, 35:46
Whitehead, Sian, 49:42
Whole Farm Plans, 16:34-5
whorled caraway, 11:46
Wigley, Meinir, 10:35(c)
Wil Jones/cofiant, 5:40 (c)
Wilberforce, Lizzie, 48:4
Wild About the Wild by Iolo Williams, 19:43
wild harvest, 21:19
wildcat, 34:12
wilderness, concept of, 2:8, 25; 6:6
Wildflower Safari: the Life of Mary Richards by William Condry, 1:41
Wildflowers of Britain & Ireland by Blamey, Fitter & Fitter, 9:45
wildlife
corridors, 3:23; 32; 24:5ff
crime, 11:45; 25:45; 27:19; 28:5
diary, 8:14
gardening, 9:44; 10:28, 47; 11:10; 14:12; 43:11, 29; see also gardening
photography, 10:22ff; 12:27ff
populations, monitoring of, 2:20ff; 6:38
success stories, 37:15
wildlife activities
birdwatching, 33:38-9; 34:27(c)
botany, 33:40
moth trapping, 33:39
rockpooling, 33:40-41
Wildlife Helpline, 25:40-1
Wildlife in Trust by Tim Sands, 45:48
Wildlife Trust
Brecknock, 43:8, 42
Glamorgan, 10:9ff; 43:7
Gwent, 33:22; 39:20; 43:8; 50:6
Monmouthshire, 43:8
Montgomeryshire, 33:30; 34:37; 37:47; 43:9, 32
North Wales, 4:12; 23:47; 26:42; 34:5, 8ff; 36:5ff; 43:9, 37
Radnorshire, 4:15; 37:5ff; 43:9
South & West Wales, 12:9; 24:23ff; 33:29; 38:47; 43:37, 42
Wildlife Trusts
history of, 43:6
management of, 43:36
Wildlife Wales Activities, 28:39
Wildlife, My Life by William Condry, 1:41
Williams, Anna, 43:11
Williams, Charlotte, 21:43
Williams, Clare, 40:40-41
Williams, David, 39:36; 46:49; 49:20
Williams, Eloise, 47:22
Williams, Gethyn, 4:42 (c), 43; 5:43; 6:41; 7:41; 8:41; 9:42; 10:44; 11:41
Williams, Graham, 17:11; 30:46
Williams, Gwyn, 34:33, 34
Williams, Iolo, 2:30 (c); 4:45; 15:43(c); 19:43, 21:16; 26:43; 39:4; 41:43
Williams, Iorwerth Ellis, 41:20(c)
Williams, John Lloyd (1854-1945), 9:10(c)
Williams, Merfyn, 26:40(c); 29:13
Williams, Paul, 2:48; 6.47; 25:32(c); 41:43
Williams, Rhys, 9:27(c)
Williams, Rolant, 7:12(c)
Williams, Steve, 16:16
Williams, Syr Ifor, 10:34(c)
Williams, T.H. Parry, 47:11(c),13
Williams, Vanessa, 43:15-16
Williamson, Kate, 7:7; 9:31; 10:28; 12:45; 15:47; 17:18; 20:47
Willis, Delyth, 37:28
willow, 20:9(c)
willow
dwarf, 33:10
replacing concrete, 33:31
short rotation, 21:10
Wilson, Edward O, 1:42; 5:44
Wilson, Michael, 39:44
Wilson, Phil, 10:45
Wilson, Scott, 3:37
wind turbines, 5:12; 28:19ff; 39:6
effect on birds, 14:4-5
offshore, 4:33; 7:41; 13:44
onshore, 14:4
Winder, Jon, 17:34
windfarms, see wind turbines
wingtagging, 5:35
Winllan wildlife garden, 6:9
Winstanley, Peter, 39:21
wintering grounds, 49:18, 31, 42
Wistow, Richard, 12:47
Withering, William, 46:17(c)
Wolseley, Pat, 40:21
wood
traditional uses of, 12:35
working with, 10:6
dead, as habitat, 49:26
wood pasturage, 29:4
wood spurge, 40:41
woodcock, 38:41
woodland
100,000 hectare challenge, 45:45
ancient, 2:17; 4:15ff; 12:33ff
brash, 45:11-13
collection of seeds, 3:37
decline of birds in, 19:22
management of, 23:31; 29:4, 32, 47
oak, 29:4
prehistoric, 10:4
response to climate change, 37:45; 39:45
restoration, 12:33; 17:28 (c), 17:34
stump removal, 45:12
Woodland Assurance Scheme, 12:35
Woodland Habitat Action Plans, 3:37
Woodland Management for Birds, 34:44
Woodland Trust see also Coed Cadw, 17:34ff; 24:46; 29:39, 47; 48:52; 50:43
Woodlands by Oliver Rackham, 22:40
Woodlands for Wales strategy, 31:43
woodlouse, 27:24
Woodman, Stella, 18:33
woodpecker,
great spotted, 12:27
lesser spotted, 38:41
Woods of the World conservation project, 4:29
Woods, Ray, 2:27; 3:44; 16:42; 20:41; 21:7; 24:29; 37:7, 32
Woolley, Dave & Liz, 8:37
Woolly Wendy and the Snowdon Lily by Sian Lewis, 3:42
Woolner, John, 40:18
World Trade Organisation, 5:10
World War II, 16:8-9; 48:46
worm, shovelhead spp, 49:46
wrack, knotted, 28:31
Wrecsam/Wrexham, 20:20; 23:30; 43:20(c)
Wright, David, 30:29
Wright, Harold, 4:11
Wright, Liz, 37:40
WWBIC, 26:31
WWF, 4:48; 5:10, 11; 18:15(c), 18:18; 21:41; 30:42(c), 43
Wyatt, Len, 8:12
wych elm, 3:38; 6:47(c)
Wye & Usk Foundation, 9:17
Wye river, 9:4, 17; 19:27-31; 40:16-17; 49:37-38(c)
Wye Valley by George Peterken, 29:45
Wyeswood Common, 26:42; 27:8
Wynne, Ellis, 31:10(c)
Wynn, F.G, 17:39
Wysg, 21:39