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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Brecon Beacons national park renamed Bannau Brycheiniog in Welsh language move

Picws Du on the Carmarthen Fans escarpment from Fan Foel in the Bannau Brycheiniog national park.
Picws Du on the Carmarthen Fans escarpment from Fan Foel in the Bannau Brycheiniog national park. Photograph: Craig Joiner Photography/Alamy

The name and logo are familiar to the hundreds of thousands of people who visit every year to climb the peaks, explore the fast-flowing streams and rivers and unwind in the towns and villages.

But from Monday the Brecon Beacons national park is dropping its English language name and scrapping its logo of a fiery greenhouse gas-emitting beacon as it launches a plan designed to tackle issues in the park created by the climate and biodiversity emergencies.

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