Country Focus - Sunday 27th November at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 28th November at 0530

The environment minister, John Griffiths is expected to decide this week whether to press ahead with plans to amalgamate the Countryside Council, the Forestry Commission and the Environment Agency in Wales into one single organisation. It would be the first body of its kind in Britain, and be a major change in how the environment is regulated in Wales. But many within the forestry industry are keen to block the move, saying it could affect jobs and future investments.

We meet the butcher from Pembrokeshire who has proved he's a cut above the rest by winning the Welsh Butcher of the Year award. Andrew Rees collected his trophy at the UK's annual Butcher's Shop awards in London, but this week, he's back at work in his Narberth shop - praised by the judges for being 'welcoming, spacious and offering a superb range of quality Welsh meat'.

We look ahead to this year's Royal Welsh Winter Fair taking place on Monday and Tuesday at the showground in Llanelwedd. The event is now in its 23rd year and is staking its place as one of the main primestock shows in the UK.

Dramatic changes are taking place to restore rare alkaline fens at Cors Erddreiniog National Nature Reserve in northeast Anglesey. The works are part of a larger project to restore wetlands across Anglesey and Llyn with £3.5m of European funding (a LIFE project). Our community reporter Huw Jenkins visited the reserve to meet Justin Hanson, project manager from the Countryside Council for Wales, to discover what makes the alkaline fen so special..

Councils around the country are asking families to stop feeding bread to ducks after advice from ornithologists which says it's not good for them. Experts say that it can harm the digestive systems of young ducks, deprive them vitamins and can even cause a disfigurement called 'angel wing,' where a joint of a bird's wing becomes twisted