STUNNING images of wild salmon, during their spawning season, have been captured by a Wildlife Photographer as they travelled through the Rhug Estate. Jack Perks filmed and photographed the salmon on the estate near Corwen to help document the £6.8 million European Union LIFE Dee River project, facilitated by Natural Resources Wales, with funding also provided by Dwr Cymru, Environment Agency and Snowdonia National Park Authority. The project aims to transform the River Dee and its catchment by restoring the river and its surroundings back to their natural state, most notably improving the numbers of salmon, lamprey and freshwater pearl mussels to help them become more sustainable in future.
READERS have cast their vote over calls for Snowdon to be retitled with its Welsh name Yr Wyddfa Earlier this week Snowdonia National Park Authority held off its decision on whether Wales highest peak should only be referred to by its Welsh name of Yr Wyddfa, in place of its English name Snowdon. A notice of motion by Cllr John Pugh Roberts was delayed as the authority said that further discussions are needed on the implications of only using the Welsh forms. The motion also called for the park to use Eryri rather than Snowdonia in future. Authority chiefs have instead set up a working group to consider its future policy on Welsh place names.
Snowedon,
Snewedon ⦠its changed spellings are a march through history) is thought to have been bestowed by Saxon sailors, for whom it would have been a notable landmark as they navigated the channel from Traeth Mawr. (The etymology explains why the newspaper favourite âMount Snowdonâ, in other words âmount snow hillâ, is so egregious.) As the Guardian country diarist Jim Perrin notes in his book Snowdon: the Story of a Welsh Mountain,
Snawdune was written down in 1095, while Yr Wyddfa appeared in 1284. The name of the nearby peak Cnicht is also said to come from Old English, being derived from the word for knight â it is shaped like a helmet â though a Welsh origin has also been claimed.