Connectivity Fforet Clud — Headwaters in permalight.
The Fforet Clud Haiku Cycle – 8 haiku to save a forest (No. 6)
The Fforet Clud Haiku Cycle - 8 Haiku to save a forest 6/8
The aquatic life of the Forest need more than oxygenating waterfalls. Every part of the ecosystem maintains the total balance
Waterfalls are the forest’s oxygen pumps: falling water hammers rock, drags air under, and makes a stream habitable — for fish, invertebrates, otters, everything that depends on that invisible exchange. But nothing in a watershed is only “local”: light pollution disrupts insect behaviour and breeding, and when you fracture the night you fracture the river. Radnor Forest’s waterfalls and gills sit beneath the proposed Fforet Clud scheme — 30 turbines with aviation lighting visible for 40 miles — risking a permanent, industrial half-light over the dark headwaters that feed this landscape
The Radnor Forest/Fforet Clud is the highest place in Radnorshire, one of the highest in the whole of mid-Wales.
We must stop the destruction of this wild place. I’ve put an objection template together – customise it and email it, it will take a few minutes and it will count.
This is also where Wordsworth and others shaped the Romantic Night (There is an essay on my Substack about this) . Forcing a cultural assessment is one of the best ways to halt the scheme, so the objection covers that too.
If you are willing, please share and restack
Click here for the objection template: