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22/06/2014

This week, Rachael Garside investigates animal cruelty, choughs and how to tackle Cotoneaster.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 23 Jun 201405:30

BBC Radio Wales

The number of CONVICTIONS for animal cruelty and neglect in Wales went up up by a fifth last year.
Catch and release - Anglers are being urged to release more of the salmon and sea trout they catch in a bid to help conserve fish stocks.
Rural crime - the new team dedicated to fighting crime in the countryside
Interested in a career in conservation management? A new traineeship project in the National Parks
Wales is a stronghold for choughsbut how is this iconic member of the crow family fairing? We look at a project in mid to North Wales which has over the past 20 years ringed and monitored 4,000 chough chicks.
Tackling Cotoneaster - conservationistsin Gower have launched a major clean-up project to kill off a foreign invader which is threatening native plants - including the yellow whitlow grass which grows nowhere else in Britain.

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