Reconnect a precious Welsh landscape
Help protect 96 hectares of rare habitat and reconnect a vital landscape for threatened wildlife.
A once-in-a-generation chance to reunite a fractured landscape
Nestled deep in the heart of mid-Wales lies the RSPB’s Gwenffrwd Dinas nature reserve – a landscape of rare Celtic rainforests, windswept uplands and tumbling valleys, where the songs of Wood Warblers echo through ancient trees and Red Squirrels scamper along their branches.
Between the two separate parts of the reserve sits Gallt y Bere – 96 hectares of rare habitat that we now have a once-in-generation opportunity to secure for nature.
With your help, we can fund the purchase of this vital missing link, creating an unbroken corridor of protected habitat where rare wildlife can thrive.
96 hectares – the missing piece that will unite Gwenffrwd and Dinas
£520,000 needed to fund the purchase of this vital land
40% of the UK’s remaining Celtic rainforest is found in Wales
£27 could secure 50m2 of rare Celtic rainforest
If you wander through the valley at Gallt y Bere, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d stumbled onto the set of a fantasy film. Here, the boughs of ancient oaks are cloaked with mosses and lichens, the delicate nodding heads of Bluebells dance in the spring breeze, and the air is alive with the hum of insects.
But this is no Elven glade. This is Celtic rainforest – a habitat even rarer than its tropical counterpart.
Each spring, rare and declining migrant birds, like Wood Warblers and Pied Flycatchers, fly all the way from Africa to raise their chicks in this special forest, feasting on the abundant insects it supports.
But with so little of this habitat left, their future hangs in the balance.
Your gift will help us to safeguard and restore the precious pocket of rainforest at Gallt y Bere, and reconnect it with the woodland at Dinas, giving some of the UK’s most threatened birds safe, protected breeding grounds for generations to come.
£40.62 could secure 75m2 of Welsh ffridd
Climb the slopes of Gallt y Bere and the dense, ethereal rainforest opens out into ffridd – a rugged mosaic of heather, gorse and Bracken.
This uniquely Welsh habitat is home to an array of threatened birds, from Whinchats and Cuckoos, to Tree Pipits and Yellowhammers, which flit amongst the shrubs in search of insects and berries.
With your help, we can expand and restore this important habitat right along the valley, giving wildlife the space it needs to thrive.
£54.16 could secure 100m2 of peatland
At the summit of Gallt y Bere, peat bogs offer a sanctuary for declining waders, like Curlews and Lapwings.
Your gift could help us restore these bogs to their squelchy, carbon-storing glory, and create more insect-rich areas for small birds and mammals, like Meadow Pipits and voles.
In turn, these will provide essential food for raptors, like Hen Harriers, which have occasionally been seen in the area. With your support, we hope to create the conditions needed to entice these majestic birds to set up home here and perform their mesmerising sky dances high above the uplands in spring.
Together, we’ve saved species before – let’s do it again
Almost 60 years ago, supporters like you helped the RSPB purchase Gwenffrwd Dinas, to provide a sanctuary for Red Kites, which were teetering on the brink of extinction in the UK. Since then, Red Kites have made a spectacular comeback.
Now, we need your support again to repeat this success for other threatened species and create a brighter future for Welsh wildlife.
Gwenffrwd Dinas is a truly unique landscape. But there has always been a missing piece. As supporters like you saved Red Kites, let’s seize this opportunity to reunite the reserve, and give hope to more threatened birds.”
- Jonathan Cryer, Site Manager, Mid-Wales Woodland Reserve
We acted fast – now we need your help
When the opportunity arose to secure the land at Gallt y Bere in late 2025, we jumped at the chance to save this special place from inappropriate land use and safeguard it for nature.
Now, we’re asking supporters like you for help to fund this essential acquisition. With nature under unprecedented pressure across Wales and the rest of the UK, we can’t miss this chance to protect an incredibly rare landscape so rich in wildlife.
Please donate today, so we can fund this purchase and begin the urgent work of reconnecting and restoring this precious landscape.
Where your donation goes
Your generosity will help fund the purchase of Gallt y Bere, plus associated costs.
If we raise more than is needed, your gift will support ongoing conservation work at Gallt y Bere and other vital nature reserves around the UK.
Together, we can create a brighter future where wildlife, wild places and all people thrive.
Thank you.