Eleven 'Coronation Meadows' have been announced in Wales by Prince Charles.
He's selected sixty sites from across the UK to be preserved. Over the sixty years of the Queen's reign more than ninety percent of our wild flower meadows have been lost.
It's hoped the move will help protect native plants that are at risk of dying out. David Wood reports from one of our coronation meadows - Newgrove in Monmouthshire.
Prince Charles is set to unveil sixty 'coronation meadows' as part of efforts to conserve flower-rich grasslands across the UK. Eleven of the special sites are in Wales.
Most of the meadows can trace an undisturbed history back to before the coronation, some for hundreds of years.
The UK has lost 97% of its wild flower meadows since the 1930s, hitting plant species and the wildlife that relies on them. The project aims to map the pockets of flower-rich meadows that still remain across the country.
Under the plans, the coronation meadow will be a 'donor' site, with hay and seed collected and used to restore or create new meadows nearby.
This process will conserve the local characteristics of grasslands in each area.
The sites in Wales include Cae Blaen-dyffryn in Carmarthenshire where thousands of lesser butterfly-orchids bloom and the New Grove meadows in Monmouthshire where green-winged orchids and waxcap fungi flourish.
The two arrived late after their helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing minutes after taking off from central London.
Read the full storyPrince Charles has been in Wales visiting workers at Tata Steel in Port Talbot. He unveiled a plaque to mark the completion of the new Blast Furnace.
The Prince of Wales said 'it will be the most sophisticated blast furnace in Europe". Dean Thomas reports.
The Prince of Wales will visit Tata Steel's steelworks, meet employees and members of the community, before visiting the Blast Furnace Control Room and unveiling a plaque to commemorate the completion of the new Blast Furnace Number Four.
The Prince said Wales should be unbelievable proud of what has been achieved here.
On a whistlestop visit to Tata Steel the Prince commemorated the rebuilding of blast furnace number four - a major £185 million project.
He was then shown a video about the lightweight super-strength steel which could transform safety for British soldiers.
As Charles was taken around the marquee, children from Eastern Primary School performed a series of festive songs.
The Prince of Wales has visited Swansea Market to meet stall holders.
Prince Charles has a day of engagements in South Wales ahead, with visits to Swansea and Port Talbot planned.
He will first visit Tata Steel to commemorate a new blast furnace before moving onto Swansea's historic market to meet local stall owners.
As part of the Welsh Government's year-long celebrations marking 100 years since the birth of Dylan Thomas, Prince Charles will visit the birthplace of the late poet and meet members of his family.
The Prince of Wales will leave with a rather festive spring in his step - his last engagement is a traditional Plygain carol service at the University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids, of which he is Patron.
