Concerns about Glastir heighten as the deadline for applications looms. The good, the bad and the ugly - a survey reveals how wild flowers are fairing in Wales and remembering man's inhumanity to animals - we honour the animal war dead.

Glastir, Wild Flowers and Animals at War.

Last updated: 14 November 2010

Country Focus - Sunday 14th November at 07.00am presented by Rachael James; repeated 5.30am Monday 15th November 2010

The deadline is fast approaching for the Welsh Assembly government's new all-Wales agri-environment scheme - Glastir. But ever since the announcement that the four previous projects including Tir Gofal and Tir Mynydd were to be amalgamated the new system has been heavily criticised. Rachael James visits a Glastir "surgery" to find out what farmers and landowners make of the scheme and speaks to Rural Affairs minister, Elin Jones.

It's good news for the rare cornflower which has reappeared in Pembrokeshre but bad news for the meadow Clary, disappearing from Wales altogether. A Plantlife Cymru study reveals mixed results for wild plants this year.

It's Remembrance Sunday - a day when we commemorate those who died in the World Wars and subsequent conflicts. But alongside those men and women who gave thier lives were a large number of animals. Eight million horses died during the First World War, and many hundreds of thousands of dogs, donkeys and pigeons served and died alongside their armies. We speak to Author Jilly Cooper who is a trustee of the Animals in War memorial.

And finally to an animal that probably didn't feature much in the Great War... when it comes to safeguarding shep or hens, there are few problems greater, or more persistent, than foxes. But staff at the Ty Mawr Country Park near Wrexham believe they may have found the answer.... Carlos and Pedro! The pair of llamas don't like our reporter, Rob Thomas much either!!


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