Country Focus

Applications for the new Habitat Wales Scheme have opened but farmers call for a "funding rethink" and support with their food, farming and the environment ambitions A fourth National Park for Wales? People are being encouraged to have their say on the proposal for one in the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley area. Nature loss on a "devastating scale" - the State of Nature report finds of almost 3900 different animals, plants and fungi studied, one in six are at risk of extinction now from Wales. Pondweed - unlocking the ecological secrets of 2 rare aquatic plants on the Montgomery Canal as stretches are dredged to improve water quality. and it's time to get voting for a sweet, Sweet Chestnut in Wrexham!