Cockles and Island Sheep
Podcast |
Country Focus
Publisher |
BBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Science
Publication Date |
Dec 04, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:27:55
A warning of a shortage of turkeys this Christmas as the Bird Flu epidemic increases the problems faced by poultry farmers in Wales. Presenter, Caroline Evans visits the Burry Inlet and Loughor Estuary to find out more about a Swansea University study that links better water quality with smaller cockles that have a higher mortality rate. A call to farmers and growers for a trial to produce fertiliser from alder trees and gorse bushes! Dod yn ôl at fy nghoed - the author finding balance in our Welsh woodlands. And the rare sheep off to Flat Holm island to start a new life on the island as conservation grazers.

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