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Tuesday 15:00-15:30
Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listener's questions and concerns.
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Home Planet, PO Box 3096, Brighton BN1 1PL
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RICHARD DANIEL
Richard Daniel
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Tuesday 3 February 2004
Earth ©NASA

Panel

Dr Anna Lawrence
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University

Dr Graham Underwood University of Essex

Philip Stott
University of London

TOPICS

Fishing-free areas
Keggie Carew asks: Why don't we create more maritime park areas where fishing is permanently prohibited? These are incredibly successful in Australasia and other parts of the world and I am told that not a single one exists in Europe.
DEFRA: Marine Environmental Protection Information
NATURA 2000
New Zealand Maritime Parks
Department of Conservation New Zealand
EU Fish Conservation
The Guardian
WWF Oceans Recovery Campaign
The Telegraph
British Antartic Survey (HRH Prince Charles warns of effects of over-fishing)

Whisky and peat
Robert Hughes asks: I like the odd glass of single malt. However I'm aware that there is an environmental price to pay. What is my occasional glass doing, for example, to the peat bogs of Islay, migrant geese, etc? We spoke to Noranne Ellis, scientific liaison office, Scottish Natural Heritage and Campbell Evans, Scottish Whisky Association
Peat Producers Association
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Peat-free gardening

Sprats
An Essex listener is intrigued by the glut of sprats off the East Coast this winter.
Fisheries Global Information System
Fishbase.org
Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture

Dendrochronology
Can the growth rings in trees provide better information about past climates than written records? Tree-Ring Services
BBC Science
University of East Anglia: Tree rings and climate change
University of Tennessee

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