The Green Industrial Revolution and Future Career Pathways
Wild Landfill has built connections with industry in North Wales and academic partnerships with Bangor and Birmingham Universities and UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology to promote research into the climate and biodiversity crises as well as provide our future green jobs pathway with academic and industrial pathways for the young people of Anglesey and Gwynedd.
Watch this space for future updates.
Anglesey Energy
Ed Bastow, Managing Director of Anglesey Energy, which is based on the Mona Industrial Estate near Llangefni, is part of the green jobs' revolution occurring across the UK.
Working with Wild Landfill and NRW Ed has committed a proportion of the land around the regulation pond to establish a biodiversity hub creating multiple environments for nature to thrive.
Watch this space for further updates on the types of skills Ed's company needs for the future and opportunities to work with Anglesey Energy to build knowledge and skills across the industry.
GREEN JOB - Wildlife Project Officer
I am the Project Officer for Afonydd Menai, a Menter Môn project, that aims to protect water voles on Anglesey. Water voles are our fastest declining mammal, however, we are fortunate enough to live in an area that is considered a stronghold for this species. My job involves tackling the big threats to water voles – habitat loss leading to isolated populations and the non-native predator, American Mink. A key part of the job is to know where water voles currently exist and so during the breeding season, I spend much of my life in waders, in wonderful habitat looking for signs of water voles (feeding stations and latrines).
I love my job because I can see the benefits it is having, whether that is through a new and exciting pond being dug that turns into a haven for water voles, water voles popping up in an area after American mink have been removed or through inspiring new people to learn and care about water voles, a species that most people haven’t heard about before finding us. I also get to spend plenty of time outside exploring random parts of Ynys Môn and North Gwynedd.
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