Birds are back after world record litter pick

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Paul from the Wambles of Wales says he’s never seen so many nesting birds around Cardiff Bay, just a few months after a world record litter pick down the Taff. He’s glad to see the impact, but has more plans coming up in to help tidy even more. In September this year, he’s got a Barry to Bristol litter pick planned, and he wants people to get involved.

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00:00I've never seen so many geese, I've never seen so many nesting birds come back and that's

00:07because people are starting to be a little bit more concerned, a little bit more respectful

00:18of nature.

00:21Just a few months ago, hundreds of people lined the banks of the River Taft and took

00:24part in a world record attempt to have the most people cleaning a river all at once.

00:29It was a success and all of the people, including yours truly, officially set the record.

00:33It was a great experience to be a part of something which helped the river and Paul from the Wambles

00:37of Wales was another participant to help break the world record and he says that you can

00:42see clearly the amount of birds here in Cardiff making homes along the water side that the

00:46clean up clearly had a massive impact on the wildlife here.

00:50So that's the whole thing, I just want to say how proud and how humbled I am by everybody

00:55that joined in the Taftide and the Guinness World Record attempt, which we broke, organised

01:01by Kate Strong.

01:02What an inspiration.

01:04There were only hundreds of people up and down the Taft, picking up litter and cleaning

01:11our beautiful river and looking after nature.

01:15The world record attempt was just one small part of Paul's journey to help clean up Cardiff

01:20and other areas around South Wales as part of his Wambles of Wales team.

01:24He was made homeless and decided to have a positive impact on people around him and his

01:28latest plans are helping homeless people with a disability.

01:31A patron of the Wambles of Wales, Geoff Tree, has a boat and he's converted it for disabled

01:41access.

01:42So we're going to have a load of guys from the homeless hostel that I stay in who are

01:46in wheelchairs and coming out and cleaning the river from the boat, getting back to nature

01:52and hopefully we'll make that a regular thing along with Cardiff Rivers Group.

01:56So yeah, that's brilliant.

01:58Paul's biggest plan at the moment, though, is Barry to Bristol litter pick.

02:02He'll be embarking on that feat later on this year and wants to get people involved wherever

02:06they can.

02:07He's inviting people to join him, share his story and be a part of the mission, which

02:11is more than just cleaning litter, but also helping destigmatise the homeless and get

02:15people back to nature.

02:17Well, I'm just me on my tod with my litter picker.

02:21I just decided to walk from Barry to Bristol, stay where I can, camp where I can, and just

02:30one foot in front of the other, picking up litter all the way, taking in the views, taking

02:34nature, some of the coastal paths, hopefully either swimming or kayaking or boating down

02:41the rivers across the channel and just picking up litter as I can.

02:46And people can get involved in that as well.

02:48It's in September, so we want to get, if you live anywhere between Barry and Bristol,

02:52Cardiff, Newport, any of the surrounding towns or areas, we will have the map on our Facebook page.

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02:59Facebook page.

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