Country Focus - Sunday 25th March at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 26th March at 0530

The Welsh Government has been accused by critics of 'betraying' rural Wales - after it decided to shelve plans to cull badgers in an attempt to control tuberculosis in cattle. Instead there'll be a five year vaccination programme. The environment minister, John Griffiths, says the decision was made after he'd considered the findings of a review he commissioned last summer. We speak to the Chief Veterinary officer for Wales, Christianne Glossop.

Peter Bottom was once the owner of Aberaeron's aquarium and a commercial shell fisherman, but five years ago he sold up and began looking for woodland with the potential to develop into a forestry business. Rachael Garside winds up the tracks of Esgair forest at Pantperthog - just three miles out of Machynlleth to discover how he's now busy carving out what he hopes to be a sustainable future.

Look in the back of any encyclopaedia of plants and you will find just a few beginning with the letter Z. One of these is Zostera which grows in the sea and therefore not seen very often but at exceptionally low tides it can be spotted on a beach on the Llyn Penisula. The marine biologist Ivor Rees takes our community reporter Huw Jenkins down to Porth Dinllaen to learn more about the importance of this plant

And we're back with the warden in Dinefwr Park and Gardens to explore the joys of Spring.