RSPB Cymru

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Am fyd lle mae bywyd gwyllt, llefydd gwyllt a phobl yn ffynnu. For a world where wildlife, wild places and all people thrive. 🌍🐦🌿

It is encouraging to see the Welsh Government acknowledging Swift bricks as a good example of enhancement measures to achieving a net benefit for biodiversity. However, we do not see how this initiative could “cloud the picture in terms of wider appropriate net benefits”, as is claimed – nor do we view Swift bricks as being the only effective way to counter the devastating declines we’ve seen in Swift numbers in Wales. What the Swift needs now from the Welsh Government is urgent action – and by giving nature a home, cost-effective Swift bricks can play their part in helping to prevent this fascinating bird from disappearing as a breeding bird in Wales.
Rhaid i Lywodraeth Cymru ymrwymo nawr i weithio'n agos gyda rhanddeiliaid gwledig i ddatblygu gweddill y cynllun ar frys. Mae'n hanfodol ei fod wedi'i ariannu'n llawn i helpu ffermio Cymru i drawsnewid i ddyfodol cynaliadwy lle mae natur yn ffynnu unwaith eto. Rhaid i hyn hefyd gynnwys sefydlu sut y bydd ffermio yn chwarae ei ran deg wrth ymateb i heriau newid hinsawdd.
Er mwyn cefnogi ffermwyr ledled Cymru yn wirioneddol i adfer natur, rhaid i'r cynllun eu cefnogi i helpu bywyd gwyllt, rheoli ein safleoedd bywyd gwyllt pwysicaf, ac achub adar dan fygythiad, fel y Gylfinir, rhag diflannu. Gyda haenau uchaf y cynllun eto i'w datblygu, nid yw'n glir eto pa mor effeithiol fydd o ran cefnogi ffermwyr i gyflawni dros natur, gan gynnwys cyrraedd targedau bioamrywiaeth Cymru ar gyfer 2030.
Heddiw yw lansio haen Gyffredinol y Cynllun Cynaliadwy. Mae'n garreg filltir arwyddocaol ac yn gam pwysig i'r cyfeiriad cywir o ran defnyddio arian cyhoeddus i gefnogi ffermwyr i reoli tir yn gynaliadwy. Fodd bynnag, ni fydd hyn ar ei ben ei hun yn ddigon i helpu ffermwyr i atal neu wrthdroi'r dirywiad mewn natur, neu i ymateb i newid hinsawdd. Dywed Llywodraeth Cymru mai dyma fydd ffocws yr haenau Dewisol a Chydweithredol, sydd eto i'w datblygu.
Welsh Government must now commit to working closely with rural stakeholders to develop the rest of the scheme as a matter of urgency. It’s vital that it’s fully funded to help Welsh farming’s transition to a sustainable future where nature thrives once more.  This must also include establishing how farming will play its fair part in responding to climate change challenges.
To truly support farmers across Wales to restore nature, the scheme must support them to help wildlife, manage our most important wildlife sites, and save threatened birds, like Curlew, from becoming extinct.   With the upper layers of the scheme still to be developed it’s still not clear how effective it will be at supporting farmers to deliver for nature, including to meet Wales’s 2030 biodiversity targets.
Today is the launch of the Universal layer of the SFS. It’s a significant milestone and an important step in the right direction in using public money to support farmers to manage land sustainably.  However, it alone will not be enough to help farmers halt or reverse the decline in nature, or to respond to climate change.  Welsh Government says this will be the focus of the Optional & Collaborative layers, which are still to be developed.