17/04/2011
In St Andrews on Scotland's east coast, Matt Baker investigates the landscape that gave rise to golf's famous Old Course and Julia Bradbury joins the groundsmen up with the lark.
The programme visits St Andrews on Scotland's east coast, the ancient home of golf and where Prince William met his bride-to-be.
Matt Baker finds out how the local landscape gave rise to St Andrews' famous Old Course and meets the man driving not golf balls but cattle across one of its newest. Julia Bradbury joins the groundsmen up with the lark to keep the fairways in tip-top condition, finding out the only way to keep rabbits from destroying the greens, before learning about the red squirrel, one of Scotland's best-loved animals.
James Wong is out with a group of wildfowlers to discover if hunting birds can actually help with their conservation. Tom Heap is on Dartmoor, where the economic downturn is taking a tragic toll on the region's iconic ponies, and Adam Henson finds out what more he can do to encourage wildlife onto his farms.
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