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Saving Species

Examining the world of nature and the challenges of wildlife conservation

Radio 4,95 episodes

Episodes

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Series 3
Episode 1
Brett Westwood looks back at the summer of 2012. How did the wet summer affect wildlife?
04 Sep 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 2
Brett Westwood looks at ways to allow bats to fly free in an increasingly urbanised land.
11 Sep 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 3
Is it going to be brownfield sites that will provide the room for wildlife to flourish?
18 Sep 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 4
Saving Species examines the health of marine environments from across the world.
25 Sep 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 5
Brett Westwood examines some of the issues UK's freshwater resources are facing.
02 Oct 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 6
Autumn is a time when the animal world is on the move with specific threats to survival.
09 Oct 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 7
Brett Westwood asks if film-makers put anything back in terms of wildlife conservation.
16 Oct 2012,28 mins
Series 3
British Raptors
Birds of prey numbers are rising in the UK, but not every countryside user welcomes this.
23 Oct 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Citizen Science / Giant Harvestman
Brett Westwood explores the growing phenomenon of citizen science.
30 Oct 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Wildcats and tooth fungi
A look at two rare species - the Scottish wildcat and the bearded tooth fungus.
06 Nov 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Goliath Grouper/Asiatic Lion/Waxwings
Brett Westwood reports on goliath groupers in the Caribbean and the Asiatic Lion of India.
13 Nov 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Ash Dieback/Managing woodlands
Brett Westwood examines the likely impacts of Ash dieback on our wildlife.
20 Nov 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Sausage lichen; Turkmenistan; hen harriers
Brett Westwood looks at the creation of a vast nature reserve in Turkmenistan.
29 Nov 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Scottish Species Action Framework
Brett Westwood reports from the Scottish Natural Heritage conference in Edinburgh.
04 Dec 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Rewilding/Devonshire Beavers
Can the process of urbanisation of the British countryside be reversed through rewilding?
11 Dec 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Wildlife Art / Wildlife Gardening Forum
Brett Westwood takes a look at the relationship between wildlife conservation and art.
20 Dec 2012,28 mins
Series 3
British Overseas Territories
Howard Stableford looks at conservation issues in some of the British Overseas Territories
25 Dec 2012,28 mins
Series 3
Wetland Habitats
The first day of 2013 sees Saving Species revelling in a winter wildfowl spectacle.
01 Jan 2013,28 mins
Series 3
International Wildlife
International wildlife with polar bears in Svalbard, Asian elephants and salmon in Dorset.
08 Jan 2013,28 mins
Series 3
Marine Conservation Zones
Latest news on the designation of conservation areas around the English and Welsh coast.
15 Jan 2013,28 mins
Series 3
Bonobos and Dragon Trees
Saving Species reports from the Congo basin on the plight of bonobos.
22 Jan 2013,28 mins
Series 3
Freshwater Eels and Mitten Crabs
Brett Westwood looks at the invasive Chinese mitten crab, plus freshwater eels.
29 Jan 2013,28 mins
Series 3
British and Arctic Mammals
Brett Westwood, the BBC Natural History Unit and the Open University look into wildlife.
05 Feb 2013,28 mins
Series 3
Rarities and Recordings
Brett Westwood looks at a bird on the edge of extinction - the slender-billed curlew.
12 Feb 2013,28 mins
Sustaining Life
The wildlife conservation programme Saving Species discusses human population and nature.
23 Dec 2011,50 mins
Series 2
Episode 1
Five million swallows swirl above rural Nigeria, poised to migrate to Europe.
26 Apr 2011,30 mins
Series 2
Episode 2
The programme follows a pair of beavers in Devon.
03 May 2011,30 mins
Series 2
Episode 3
Saving Species reports from the Congo and the future of Lowland Gorillas.
10 May 2011,30 mins
Series 2
Episode 4
The wildlife value of UK woods triggered a government U-turn in 2010, but is it over?
17 May 2011,30 mins
Series 2
Episode 5
Saving Species asks the question, 'where are tomorrow's naturalists going to come from?'.
24 May 2011,30 mins