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NatHistory: Saving Species (Srs 2) - 13 Dec 11 - Ep 30 30/30 For the final live programme of the series there will be an update from the BTO on the location of the five tagged cuckoos in the forests of Central Africa.
Also on the move but on a much shorter journey are shags. Bob Swann reports from his well-monitored seabird cliffs at North Sutor in Scotland where he has been checking the ring numbers of the shags.
Peter Burgess from the Devon Wildlife Trust takes Chris Sperring on an end of year update on the beavers who are being used t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species (Srs 2) - 06 Dec 11 - Ep 2928/30 Michael Scott reports from the Flanders Moss peat bogs near Stirling. He discovers it's all about the management of water. Howard Stableford sends a second report about Pikas, where American biologists from Arizona State University explain that the Pikas are also critical for the retention of water on the plateau: their burrows, they claim, help prevent flood and drought.
Jane Madgwick, Director of Wetlands International talks about water and the conservation of peat bogs at home ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species (Srs 2) 29 Nov 11 - Ep 2828/30 In this weeks programme Buzzards are implicated as part of the cause in the decline of Brown Hares in North Wales. Hares are not commonly linked to a Buzzards diet - so can this be right. We're in North Wales to find out.
We're also in Brazil with Mark Brazil who is exploring the flooded Amazon forest in search of the White Uakari Monkey.
And back in the UK - news that many more of the global species of whales can be found in British waters.
Presenter Kelvin Boot
Producer Sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: The Living World - 27 Nov 11 - Cuckoo TreesThe Living World: Cuckoo Trees
In early winter, Joanna Pinnock heads up to the Stiperstone Hills in Shropshire. Here she meets up with Sara Bellis and Carl Pickup from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust at a remarkable place, The Hollies. Here high up on the windswept hills, Joanna encounters ancient holly trees, which could be as old as 400 years. Holly, naturally an understory tree of more developed woodland, is not suited to grow up here in the cold windy conditions. But how and why these ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species (Srs 2) 22 Nov 11 - Ep 2727/30 This week the programme is all about trees and forests. In the UK this is national tree week. We have a story where a 500 year plan is being rolled out to restore ancient woodland in the British landscape. We also have a report from Italy on the success of designating a forest "sacred" to save it. And the Monkey Puzzle tree. A report from Michael Scott on the importance of the genetic diversity of Monkey Puzzles in Scottish gardens and parks to the Chile, the native country of this sp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: The Living World 20 Nov 11 Winter LadybirdsAs ladybirds become dormant in winter, their struggle to survive is examined. Joanna Pinnock joins Dr Helen Roy and Richard Comont in Oxfordshire.
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NatHistory: Saving Species (Srs2) 08 Nov 11: Ep 2525/30 Saving Species reports from Tampa Bay on studies following the movements and whereabouts of Sea Horses. How is it the males have been left "holding the baby" and why does understanding how the female has got out of rearing off spring help in the conservation of the species.
We also get a report on efforts in Israel to stem the decline of marine turtles in the Mediterranean. The Sea Turtle Rescue Centre was set up in 1999 under the auspices of the Israel Nature and Park Authority ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species (Srs 2) 15 Nov 11 - Ep 2626/30 Assisi in Italy is the town most strongly associated with Saint Francis - the patron saint of the environment. A fitting place for a unique gathering of world faiths and members of the global conservation community. They were there to inspire one another and find ways of working more closely together to protect the natural world. Karen Partridge joined the delegates and speakers in Assisi and will be in the studio to talk about the upsum of this special meeting of minds.
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NatHistory: The Living World 13-Nov-11 Waxcap GrasslandsWest Wales receives a lot of rain, which is perfect for this week's Living World. Paul Evans joins Bruce Langridge from the National Botanic Garden of Wales and Dr Gareth Griffiths, a mycologist from Aberystwyth University on a fungal foray with a difference, as they look for waxcaps hidden amongst grass.
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NatHistory: The Living World 06 Nov 11: Celtic Rain ForestHigh in the hills of the Snowdonia National Park in Wales, can be found a rare and fascinating habitat. For this weeks' Living World, Paul Evans joins Ray Woods from Plantlife Cymru on a voyage of discovery into the Celtic Rainforest.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: The Living World 30 Oct 11: Stone CurlewWiltshire's dry arable land is home to the stone curlew. Joanna Pinnock joins Nick Adams, as dusk begins, to search for this banshee of the night.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species (Srs 2) 01 Nov 11 - Ep 2424/30: This weeks Saving Species is recorded in front of an audience at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. And the programme has a theme - fungi. It's at this time of year that many of us see the fruiting bodies of fungi, the "mushroom", but so much more goes on underground and in the leaf litter. On the panel we have fungi expert Professor Lynne Boddy of Cardiff University and Rosie Plumer, the Director of the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Delivering some specially written prose is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Savnig Species 2 Ep 23 - 25 Oct 11Ep: 23 of 30 - BBC1 airs the Natural History Units latest wildlife landmark Frozen Planet this week. The series Executive Producer Alastair Fothergill will be in the Saving Species studio to talk about the series and especially recounting the experience taking Sir David Attenborough down to the Antarctic ice shelf - a lasting experience Alastair tells us that portrays the change under way in the Antarctic.
Also in the programme, the latest news of the Spectacled Eiders Julian Hector visi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species Srs 2 18 Oct 11 - Ep 22 of 3022/30: We report from the city of Bristol on the behaviour of Herring Gulls. There are reports of Herring Gulls stalking, waiting and seizing opportunities to snatch food from picnics on the beach and it's well known in the city of Bristol that Herring Gulls scavenge fast food in the streets. And yet Herring Gulls are in decline, they are now listed in the Red Data Book of threatened species. What is causing the Herring Gull decline in the UK when so much food seems available.
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NatHistory: Bitten By The Bug - Ep. 5 14 Oct 2011Bitten By The Bug: "Sorby"
In the last of this series of five programmes exploring the aims and enthusiasms of their members, Brett Westwood searches for mountain hares on the Sheffield moors with Derek Whiteley and Val Clinging from the Sorby Natural History Society and discusses the future of natural history societies here in the UK.
Produced and Presented by Brett Westwood.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Bitten By the Bug - Ep. 4 13 Oct 2011Bitten By The Bug: "Mosses"
In the fourth of this series of five programmes exploring the aims and enthusiasms of their members,Brett Westwood is initiated into the delights of mosses and liverworts when he joins a foray with two botanists from the British Bryological Society and hears about the publication of their brand new field guide.
Produced and Presented by Brett Westwood.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Bitten By The Bug - Ep.3 12 Oct 11Bitten By The Bug: "Bookham Commons"
In the third of this series of five programmes exploring the aims and enthusiasms of their members , Brett Westwood gets to the heart of our natural history societies and finds that here in the UK they are in surprisingly good shape. In 2011 the London Natural History Society celebrates 70 years of studying one place, Bookham Commons in Surrey. The results of the findings, which include purple emperor butterflies and 1800 species of beetle, have i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Bitten By The Bug - Ep.2 11 Oct 11Bitten By The Bug: "The Flies Workshop"
In the second of this series of five programmes exploring the aims and enthusiasms of their members , Brett Westwood gets to the heart of our natural history societies and finds that here in the UK they are it is in surprisingly good shape. The Dipterist’s Forum was established to study the 7000 and more species of two-winged flies which occur in the UK, from bluebottles to mosquitos. At a field centre in Shrewsbury he learns how to navigate h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Bitten By The Bug - Ep.1 10 Oct 11Bitten By The Bug: BSBI Field Trip
In the first of this series of five programmes exploring the aims and enthusiasms of society members , Brett Westwood gets to the heart of our natural history societies and finds that here in the UK they are in surprisingly good shape. The first programme takes him to the Somerset Levels with the Botanical Society, where he joins a field meeting studying aquatic plants. Field trips are the life-blood of any society and a tour of the dykes and ditche ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species Ep 21 11 Oct 11Research biologist Lucy Hawkes from Bangor University is in the studio reporting on her latest work on the Bar-Headed Goose. We find out how studying their migration helps inform their conservation. Chris Sperring reports on the re-introduction of the Fen Raft Spider into a restored marshland in Suffolk. And the BTO are live on the programme to bring us up to date with the Cuckoos on the move.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 - 04 Oct 2011 Ep 2020/30 The Pika is a small mammal that lives in the high altitude grasslands in mountain ranges from Japan, through central Asia and North America. Andrew Smith and his team of field biologists from Arizona State University has studied the Pika for many years on the Tibetan Plateau. It's in Tibet, he claims, they are wrongly blamed for the degrading of the grasslands by the Chinese. We have been to see Andrew Smith and have a reply from the Chinese Academy of Science.
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NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Ep 19 27 Sept 1119/30 We have our third report from the tundra of the Alaskan North Slope. Species has been reporting the work of U.S. Geological Survey biologist Matt Sexson on Spectacled Eiders. Zoo vets Maria Spriggs and Gwen Myers of Mesker Park Zoo Indiana and Columbus Zoo Ohio respectively, provide the clinical support in the field. So what is conservation medicine and is there an increasing role for vets in the wider world of saving wildlife in our increasingly stressed planet?
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NatHistory: Saving Species Ep 18 20 Sept 201118/30 Saving Species goes to Alaska to find the Spectacled Eider, a duck which is the focus of intense research and a species that represents the future of many Arctic species.
Presented by Brett Westwood
Produced by Sheena Duncan
Editor Julian HectorListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species Ep 17 13 Sept 1117/30 Butterfly expert Matthew Oates is tramping the wilds with Brett looking for the Purple Hairstreak Butterfly. And Julian Hector reports from the North Slope of Alaska where he meets the team working on the extraordinary Spectacled Eider. We also hear from Sarah Pitt who has been looking for Water Voles - so this weeks edition of Saving Species is truly outdoors.
Presented by Brett Westwood
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NatHistory: Saving Species Ep 16 6 Sept 11Presenter Brett Westwood introduces the the Horrid Ground Weaver - a miniscule hairy creature found, it is thought, in only one place in the UK - And a team of biologists are on the hunt. Also in the programme: The latest news on Indian Vulture conservation - and the release of the European Cranes on the Somerset Levels. With news from Kelvin Boot.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species Ep 15 30 Aug 11Brett Westwood presents. The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is the oldest known nesting site in the world for the common swift but numbers are falling there and elsewhere - why and what is being done to help? And Brett discovers more about the private life of the beautiful woodland butterfly the Silver Washed Fritillary. Brett also gets an update on Chris, the Saving Species cuckoo that is making its way to its wintering area in Africa. With news from Kelvin Boot.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Living World - Malham CaddisflyThe Malham Sedge has not been seen for four years. Paul Evans joins a research project run by Ian Wallace on Malham Tarn in Yorkshire to find out if this rare caddisfly still exists.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: 14 Aug 11 - Living World - Vampire PlantsThe Weardale uplands are home to rich and varied plant communities. For this weeks' Living World, Paul Evans joins Dr Phil Gates on a botanical exploration with a difference: A wildflower rich landscape with a sinister botanical twist in its tail.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: 07 Aug 11: LW - Limestone PavementsThe Yorkshire Dales has some of the most spectacular scenery in England. In this weeks' Living World, Michael Scott explores the plants of the limestone pavement with Tim Thom.
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NatHistory: 31 Jul 11 - Living World - PuffinsIts summertime and for this weeks Living World Paul Evans crosses over to the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast where he joins warden David Steele on a puffin safari.
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NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 14 26 Jul 201114/30 Chris the cuckoo is south bound, heading for Africa - but where exactly is he? We visit the British Trust for Ornithology's HQ in East Anglia and find out latest progress of him and his compatriots. We also have a report about the UK Lady Bird Survey being conducted by the Biological Records Centre. Over recent years we have heard much about the invasive harlequin ladybird pushing out our native species - but is this really the case. And how easy is it to see all the ladybrid species ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species Series 2 Episode 13Brett Westwood presents. Ponds in the UK are the target for significant conservation measures, but how well have we done looking after the wildlife of these mini wetlands? We talk to Natural England on the future of Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs).
Also in the programme we feature the latest report from Bob Swann surveying the seabird colonies of Tain and Canna. And a report from Newcastle from Trai Anfield on the future of urban nesting Kittiwakes who are being re-located to breeding tow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 12 12 July 11Brett Westwood presents. Saving Species has an interview with Sperm Whale biologist Hal Whitehead and reports live from the International Whale Commission. We also have a report on wetlands in England and an interview from Kenya on the status of Giraffes. Giraffe numbers have been falling in Africa - why?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 11: 05 Jul 1111/30 The Green Turtle is one of nature's great travellers, migrating from feeding grounds to breeding grounds traversing the oceans of the world. Like so many species reported in the series, Green Turtles are in decline. Our reporter James Brickell reports from the Great Barrier Reef with biologists who are both trying to understand the natural history of these magnificent creatures and help in their conservation. And we have turtle biologist Brendan Godley from Exeter University live in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 10 28-Jun-1110/30 This week in the Saving Species studio we have Lucy Hawkes visiting who is a biologist working on the Bar-Headed Goose. The Bar-Headed goose is famous for its high altitude migration, climbing from the lowlands of India, over and above the highest peaks of the Himalayas, to their breeding grounds on the high altitude grasslands of Outer Mongolia.
We also talk to Daniel Pauly, a leading marine biologist from University of British Columbia, about his take on the state of global ocea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 9 21-Jun-11As part of the Saving Species mini-series "Citizen Conservation", presented by Sarah Pitt, there is a feature on the conservation of Dormice. It seems that one of the most important habitats to protect for Dormice is "scrub". But what is scrub?
Also in the programme is a report on the status of the Manx Shearwater seabirds, recorded on location on Canna near the Isle of Skye by Bob Swann. Followed by an interview with the RSPB about the role of controlling predators to protect seabird ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Savnig Species Series 2 Programme 88/30 Britain is internationally important for seabird species. There are colonies of Gannets, Fulmars, Manx Shearwaters, Puffins, Guillemots, Razor Bills, Greater Black-backed Gulls and Storm Petrels to name just a few. In recent years there have been reports that the breeding success of British seabirds is in decline although unusually cold winters in the last two years might have slowed this decline. To find out the latest about the UK's seabird populations Brett Westwood will be on the F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species Series 2 Programme 7This week's Saving Species explores the mysteries of bird migration. Joanna Pinnock joins the British Trust for Ornithology on an early morning expedition to put a special transmitter on a Cuckoo. Chris Sperring is in Somerset finding out about the fortune of the pied flycatcher, and Mark Brazil reports from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on the little understood Latham's Snipe. Presenter: Brett Westwood, Producer: Sheena Duncan, Editor: Julian Hector.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: 31 May 11 - Saving Species 2 Programme 6Saving Species reports the extraordinary findings of a twenty year study into the wildlife of a garden. Presented by Joanna PinnockListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 5 24 May 2011Saving Species is in front of an audience on the Tyntesfield Estate near Bristol – it’s here, care of the National Trust, a BioBlitz is taking place. Saving Species asks the question, “where are tomorrows naturalists going to come from”?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Living World - Raft Spiders 22 May 11Presenter Paul Evans meets up with John Hughes from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust to traverse Wem Moss National Nature Reserve in search of a wetland specialist, the raft spider Dolomedes fimbriatus: Britain's largest native spider.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 4 17 May 11Brett Westwood presents. Saving Species reports from a project in Norfolk restoring an ancient wood. We feature a report from Bob Swann who has monitored the same two seabird colonies in Scotland for 25 years. Patrick Evans reads his second piece from the area around Chernobyl - this week we hear about the Przewalski's Horse. Produced by Mary Colwell, Editor: Julian Hector.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Living World - Oil Beetles 15 May 11Devon is home to all four oil beetle species recorded in Britain. For this weeks' Living World, Paul Evans joins naturalist John Walters on an oil beetle hunt.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 3 10 May 11Saving Species reports from the Congo and the future of Lowland Gorilla's and the translocation of Desert Tortoises in the Mojave desert. Plus, how has the UK wildlife reacted to this years most unusual spring - high seasonal temperatures, very low rainfall and habitat fires.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Living World - Dymock Daffodils 8 May 11Paul Evans follows the Poet's Path into the heart of wild daffodil country as he celebrates spring in the Dymock woods in Gloucestershire, home to the Dymock Poets in WW1.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 2 03 May 11The re-introduction of European Beavers into the British countryside continues to be a long and complex consultation process, with many Beavers now in large habitat-scale enclosures. Plus the first report from journalist Patrick Evans on the state of wildlife in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Living World - Islay Birds 1 May 11Islay is a haven for birds. For this weeks' Living World, Michael Scott joins long time Islay resident Malcolm Ogilvie for a birdwatch along the shores of Loch Gruinart.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: Saving Species 2 Programme 1 26 Apr 11Saving Species is back for another year of live broadcasting about the world of wildlife conservation. The first programme is a reminder that spring has sprung and the UK's most treasured migrant birds are back - the Swallows. During the winter a BBC Natural History Unit team visited Nigeria to track down a little know population of wintering swallows - and they found them. With upward of five million individuals, the sky darkened with the swirling avian biomass. We reveal how we know East ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NatHistory: James And The Giant Eagle 22 Apr 11James Aldred encounters one of the world's most powerful birds of prey, the Harpy Eagle.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |