Last updated: 29 January 2012

Country Focus - Sunday 29th January at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 30th January at 0530

A consultation will be launched this week on how we manage the environment which could radically change the way we manage the landscape and natural resources in Wales. The Natural Environment Framework outlines the use of a new "ecosystem approach" and promises to improve outcomes for society, business and the environment

Farmers are urging members of the public walking near farmland to keep their dogs under control following a spate of sheep worrying in which pregnant ewes have been killed.

And as if Farmers haven't enough to worry about - they're being asked to be vigilant and look out for signs of a new animal disease which causes birth defects and miscarriages in livestock. Confirmed in the UK for the first time on four sheep farms in the East of England, Schmallenberg virus is first emerged in the Netherlands and Germany last year.

We meet the 3 teenage horse-riders from Llangeinor and Glamorgan Pony Clubs who have beaten tough competition to be selected to work as safety stewards on the Olympic 2012 Eventing course at Greenwich Park


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