Cardiff Naturalists’ Society

Cardiff Naturalists' Society is the longest established wildlife organisation in the area, having been formed in 1867 at the instigation of Robert Drane F.L.S . It was the largest scientific Society in Wales in 1905, when it played a role in the establishment of the National Museum in Cardiff.
Cardiff Naturalists' Society's link with the National Museum of Wales continues to this day, and the Society's library of over 10,000 volumes is housed within the library of the Museum.
The Society has also had close links with Cardiff University since the University's inception, and these links continue today with the Society's Bioscience Prize being awarded annually to a second-year student for their outstanding field course project.
Members of the Society have been instrumental in protecting many of the wild areas that we al know and love, from Skomer island to Forest Farm.