The Nature Service is a nationally coordinated initiative working across Wales to support nature recovery by strengthening skills, capacity and access to opportunities.
It creates a visible, trusted identity that helps people from all backgrounds find and engage with volunteering, education, training, employment and early career pathways linked to restoring nature and responding to the climate emergency.
The Nature Service does not deliver activities directly. Instead, it works through partners as a connector, amplifier and coordinator, helping make existing opportunities more visible, accessible and joined-up across Wales.
Who is involved
The Nature Service has the support of a wide range of Welsh civic society and elected officials, the nature conservation sector, the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales and more than 100 organisations that have co-designed the early work.
The process is being organised by the Wales Inquiry of the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, with support from the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner, under the auspices of the Green Recovery Task Group – a cross sector group convened to act quickly and creatively in response to the impacts of the pandemic.
Founding partners
The development of The Nature Service is guided by a Development Board, co-chaired by Peter Davies and Sue Prichard, bringing together organisations that have played a leading role in shaping the initiative.
The Nature Service has been shaped by the collective input of over 100 stakeholders from across the public, private and third sectors.
The Founding Partners include:
• Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
• Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)
• National Trust Cymru
• Natural Resources Wales
• The Prince’s Trust
• RSPB Cymru
• The Open University
• Wales Council for Voluntary Action
• Cymdeithas Eryri / Snowdonia Society
• Groundwork Wales
The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales included the proposal to create a national nature service in Fit for the Future Programme for Government
