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Live Exports and a Corgi Comeback

We look at the impact of a potential ban on live animal exports and we're wagging our tails for the Pembroke Corgi.

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Sun 18 Feb 201807:03

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Live exports - a cruel trade or an essential operation for the farming industry? The government is understood to be considering a ban on the export of live animals for slaughter. A move welcomed by campaigners but sheep farmers fear it will have a detrimental effect on their industry

Farm Suicides - the Farm Safety Foundation launch a new campaign to tackle mental health amongst farmers. We hear the story of Daniel Picton Jones who committed suicide in July 2016. After leaving a lengthy suicide note depicting his mental state of mind it led to his wife Emma to speak out about stress and depression in the industry

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Aquaculture - the university project selling cleaner fish to Scottish salmon farms

Red Squirrels - the Mid Wales Red Squirrel project says recent sightings suggest the red squirrel population could be covering a wider area than previously thought. Rachael meets the volunteers helping confirm actual numbers in a Carmarthenshire woodland.

and the Pembroke Corgi gets removed from the list of dog breeds at risk!

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