Wetlands Reserve

The Wetlands Reserve, which got its name from the name of the wetlands on which it is organized, is located in Cardiff Bay and covers an area of about 8 hectares. This is a very young reserve, opened in 2003 by the efforts of engineer Edmund Nuttall and landscape architect Phil Williams. They say it was a real challenge because no one knew what level the waters of the Taff River, on the banks of which the Wetlands formed, could rise.

The reserve lands used to be salt marshes, but the dam on Cardiff Bay built in 2001 changed the landscape, and a huge freshwater lake appeared on the site of the salt marsh, on the shore of which the reserve was organized. There was a lot of debris coming from the river into the Wetlands wetlands, so the administration decided to build a huge 450-meter floating boom that fenced off the Wetlands from getting mud from the bay.

Given the marshy terrain of the reserve, here you can find reed thickets and birds, which are characterized by such a habitat. Also here you can find many animals, amphibians and fish, for which created the most comfortable conditions for nutrition and reproduction. Visitors are not allowed to enter the main part of the reserve, but on the outskirts there are special paths and observation decks from which you can watch birds with binoculars.