Country Focus

About Country Focus

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

Publisher

BBC Radio Wales

Category

news · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Mar 2024

Latest episode

30 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Mar 2025

   Shoresearch

   Where the land meets the sea there is a rich, but fragile habitat - but what can it tell us about the health of our shores? The Shore Search Intertidal Surveys project monitors that sea life to better understand the effects of pollution, climate change and invasive alien species. Pauline Smith joins the marine team of the North Wales Wildlife Trust and volunteers at Criccieth beach on the Llŷn peninsula to discover more.

2. 

   16 Mar 2025

   Lighthouses

   In the "Year of the Sea", we explore some of the amazing lighthouses located around our Welsh shores.

3. 

   9 Mar 2025

   A Farmed Wildlife Haven

   On the northern edge of the Cors Caron National Nature Reserve is a mixed livestock farm that proudly boasts a host of bird and wildlife species. To discover more, presenter Pauline Smith visits Cruglas Farm, in the village of Swyddffynnon, which is home to ornithologist, farmer and conservationist, Terry Mills. It's also home to Welsh Black cattle and around 500 breeding ewes plus.....145 different bird species, 26 types of butterflies, 9 species of bat and almost every large mammal you can think of! Terry has been managing the habitats on his farm to support existing and new wildlife as the climate changes. He stops short of calling it rewilding but believes wildlife and farming go hand in hand. The farm is now a blueprint for a collaboration with neighbouring farmers, who all border the Cors Caron National Nature Reserve. Run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Bro Cors Caron Sustainable Management Scheme, is a farmer led project, restoring hedgerows, putting in ponds and creating wildlife corridors to reverse local biodiversity declines whilst also allowing for productive and profitable pastoral farming.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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