Country Focus

BBC

Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news

  • 27 minutes 52 seconds
    Creating Hope and Biodiversity

    Climate Change: as world leaders gather at Baku, in Azerbaijan for COP 29 in the next two weeks we take a look at projects focused on tackling the impacts of climate change. We take a look at efforts to conserve a rare lichen at Dinefwr Park in Carmarthenshire and hear how slag waste could hold the key to better biodiversity. The Spotabee App - scientists from Cardiff University call for help to save endangered Welsh bees by registering your bee sightings on an app.

    It's good news for free range egg farmers with changes to the marketing of free-range eggs when hens are housed during Avian flu outbreak.

    And for this month's bird of Conservation Concern we take a look at the small, golden, "king of the birds"

    10 November 2024, 7:30 am
  • 27 minutes 38 seconds
    River Health and Polder Fields

    Restoring Welsh Rivers summit - we speak to the Archbishop of Wales about why the Church in Wales is getting involved in tackling our waterways and we hear how the Dean of St David's in Pembrokeshire is "doing the little things" and caring for a small river that runs by the Cathedral. Polder fields - a Natural Resources Wales' project to restore saltmarsh along the Rhumney Great Wharf by reinstating and extending the sedimentation polders - small fences on the mudflats.

    and for our Bird of Conservation concern, we're on a farm in Pembrokeshire to feed the Yellowhammers.

    27 October 2024, 7:30 am
  • 27 minutes 51 seconds
    The Nuffield Scholarship

    Open to applicants between the ages of 25 and 45, each year the Nuffield Foundation offers people working in farming, horticulture, forestry or other countryside industries an opportunity to study and travel overseas. Scholars are selected with a view to developing tomorrow’s leaders within their individual business and the industry as a whole. Caroline Evans meets some of this year's scholars from Wales and hears about their experiences

    27 October 2024, 7:30 am
  • 27 minutes 52 seconds
    Bark Beetle and Gregorian Chanting

    The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle - landowners across Wales are urged to be on the lookout for signs of a pest that has been found in Monmouthshire for the first time.

    Agricultural pollution - a three month ban on muck-spreading came into force across Wales this week. We hear what it means for the industry and the environment

    A community wetland - how a Welsh housing group has helped its tenants save an area of wetland in Cynon Taf, which was once intended for housing.

    and in fine voice at a church in Llangollen, there's a revival of the ancient art of Gregorian chanting

    20 October 2024, 6:30 am
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