The committee also heard evidence from the Countryside Council for Wales and the Wales Environment Link.
The Countryside Council for Wales has confirmed that the area is a European designated conservation zone.
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Environment Agency Wales, Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Commission Wales will join forces early next year.
The area falls within an SSSI for its fauna and flora and was monitored by the Countryside Council for Wales.
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The Countryside Council for Wales says felling the 100 hectares of forestry at Newborough is important to protect the internationally-renowned dunes.
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Representatives of the Wales Association of National Parks, the Countryside Council for Wales and The National Trust also gave evidence during the session.
The Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), The Countryside Council for Wales and local community councils have raised concerns over the plans.
The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has added its support to a project to sustain an area of African tropical forest the size of Wales.
The decision to bring together the Environment Agency Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Commission Wales (FCW) has received mixed reactions from the opposition parties.
This was the view of representatives from the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) who were giving evidence to the committee as part of its inquiry into biodiversity.
The pond restoration is being carried out by the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley AONB with European funding from the Countryside Council for Wales and the Trunk Road Agency's Biodiversity Fund.
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On 29 November 2011 the Welsh Government announced that the Environment Agency Wales, Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Council Wales will merge into a single environmental body from April 2013.
John Ratcliffe of the Countryside Council for Wales - also partners in the squirrel conservation project - said half measures were not possible and it wanted to return more of the area to dunes.
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Dafydd Elis-Thomas, AM for Dwyfor Meirionnydd asked how the minister would ensure that activity would continue in the transition period of merging the Forestry Commission, Countryside Council for Wales and the Environment Agency into a new single environmental body.
But those giving evidence said that it was "too early" to make a full assessment of the success of the strategy's implementation, however Dr Susan Gubbay from the Countryside Council for Wales said "things are going forward at the pace one would expect".
The Wales Ecological Footprint project is made up of a wide range of partners including WWF Cymru, Cardiff Council, Gwynedd Council, Cardiff University, Bangor University, the Stockholm Environment Institute (York), the National Assembly for Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales and the Environment Agency Wales.
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Mr Woods used to work for the Countryside Council of Wales, now Natural Resources Wales.
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