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Discover Animals’ Geoff Moore delves into the world of Pannage in this latest video, where pigs are released into the New Forest in Hampshire to eat the acorns from the many oak trees that grow there. This is a service which helps to save the lives of other animals as the acorns are very poisonous … Read more
Three years on from the ‘knitting together’ of 3,400 hectares of priority habitat to create the UK’s first-ever ‘super’ National Nature Reserve (NNR) on the Purbeck Heaths in Dorset, where the BBC filmed Springwatch this year, the National Trust is working with reserve partners on an ambitious project to create a 1,370-hectare open ‘savannah’ for … Read more
Discover Animals’ Geoff Moore visits the Channel Island of Guernsey to find out how Guernsey cattle are helped to live a long, healthy and more natural life producing the famous golden dairy products the island is renowned for. As a rare breed, the cattle are part of Guernsey’s living heritage and farmers on the island … Read more
A herd of forty-five British White cattle is being returned to ancient woodland on the Blenheim Estate in Oxfordshire for the first time in more than a century. The modern British White cattle breed has direct links with the ancient indigenous wild white cattle of Great Britain. It is hoped that by grazing the land … Read more
The Wildlife Trusts are calling on the Government to stop the killing of badgers as a fresh wave of culling begins over a much wider area than in previous years. Badger culls have been given the go-ahead in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Cheshire and Somerset. The Wildlife Trusts are concerned that this culling … Read more
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