Wildlife
The River Garw once contained Salmon amongst other fish. Industrialisation of the valley resulted in their loss, but they are slowly being re-introduced as part of the valley's regeneration, after the closure of the coal mines in the 1980s and the recovery of the now useful shale through a brief period of restorative opencast mining in the 1990s.
It also runs through Bryngarw Country Park - a managed and publicly-owned estate and nature reserve, where many types of birds can occasionally be seen.
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