12/08/2012

A drastic decline in upland birds has prompted the Farmers Union of Wales to canvas the opinions of people attending the Flint and Denbigh Show next week. If the trend continues iconic species such as Curlew, Golden Plover, Chough, Peregrine and Ring Ouzel, could, according to research by ornithologists, lead to some species becoming extinct.

Pledge-to-Fledge the global initiative to encourage more people to take it up birdwatching Ruth Millar and Alan Davies would like you to join them 24th-26th August.

The Silver Studded Blue is a small butterfly that lives in heathland and is a bit of a rarity in Wales. At one of their few and isolated colonies in the middle of Snowdonia there has been concern that the severe bad weather we've been experiencing could further their decline.

We rejoin our National Trust Warden at Dinefwr Park near Llandeilo in the so-called summer season to find out what his duties are at this time of the year

and tackling the problem of Carpet Sea Squirts an invasive species that are colonising in Holyhead Marina.