On Friday 27th February we launched Changing Tides, a coastal adaptation handbook which has been co-designed with communities of the Dyfi. The handbook aims to give local residents, stakeholders, and decision-makers the tools and knowledge needed to adapt to an evolving coastal landscape. It’s available online and through a limited print run.
The handbook provides information on ways we can protect fragile habitats, store carbon, support health and wellbeing and help safeguard local infrastructure. It also provides links to national priorities for ocean literacy, blue investment and building the capacity of communities to lead meaningful change. The material was developed through a series of co-design workshops over 2024-2025, and combines local knowledge and experience with scientific approaches.
The handbook was launched at an event at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, which featured a panel discussion on ‘Land, Language and Belonging’ with writer Elinor Gwynn, Tir Canol’s nature officer Ben Porter and Jill Bullen Hulse, specialist advisor on Landscape and Heritage for Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
Changing Tides is a Tir Canol project, led by RSPB Cymru and funded by the Nature Networks Fund – a programme delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government that aims to strengthen the resilience of Wales’ protected land and marine sites and accelerate nature’s recovery.