Welcome to Friends of Cardigan Bay home page
These pages will show you the riches of Cardigan Bay, the threats and how you can be part of the solution. Whether you are a visitor to the Bay, a resident of the Bay area or purely a visitor on the web, please join us in our work.
This site is curently under construction, and will be updated over the next few weeks.
Friends of Cardigan Bay are an active conservation group based in Aberystwyth on the shores of Cardigan Bay, West Wales.
Founded in 1989 are aims were:
To conserve and improve the quality of the environment of Cardigan Bay for all life.
Increase public awareness of the effects of pollution and other threats to the Bay.
Join with other local and national organizations in monitoring the environment of the Bay and campaigning for it's proper protection.
Present and future direction of Friends of Cardigan Bay:
The emphasis is now mainly on research and monitoring of the rich and diverse flora and fauna of the Bay around Aberystwyth.
We work closely with other marine wildlife groups and government departments which cover the rest of the Welsh coast. (check links page - cSAC, CCW, CBMWC, Seatrust) By sharing information we can work together to build up a better picture of the overall health of the Bay.
In 2004 active projects included :
- A weekly dolphin watch from Aberytwyth castle over the summer months
- Offshore bottlenose dolphin boat based surveys
- Investigations of the unique wildlife found on Sarn Cynfelin, our local reef running off Wallog, near Clarach Bay