Country Focus - Sunday 15th May at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 16th May at 0530

The flames may have gone out on the recent fires that ravaged some of our most environmentally sensitive countryside but for those who fought the blazes and who work in the areas affected, it's time to reflect and assess the extent of the damage. Rachael James visits the charred landscape in the Brecon Beacons National Park where nearly 2000 acres of upland common and peat bog was burnt.

Campaigners opposed to the growing of genetically modified crops have been holding celebrations this weekend - to mark their success ten years ago in halting plans to grow GM crops in Pembrokeshire.

Old, neglected, wire fencing in the countryside can look untidy and unsightly so a new campaign has been launched by the Snowdonia Society to identify some of the more offensive eyesores and have it repaired or removed from the mountains. But for some campaigners that's not going far enough and more radical action is needed to tackle a "proliferation" of upland fencing.

And the distinctive call of the cuckoo - the lengths one couple go just to hear it. But why is it no longer such a common spring sound?