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Cannon-Netting, Pine Martens and Rare Breeds

The rural news magazine explores how to catch and ring wading birds with cannon-netting, tracking pine martens making a new home in mid-Wales and saving rare farm breeds.

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Mon 9 Nov 2015 05:30

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In more detail .......

Pine Martens - The project to help restore the native species with the hope that , which were on the verge of extinction in Wales, will have benefits for the countryside. Though farmers in the area are not so convinced, fearing they could put livestock in danger. So far the release is going well but keeping an eye on them once they're out in the woodlands in the Rheidol valley is no easy task

Rare Breeds - we meet the man travelling across the country from his farm in Pembrokeshire, to secure the continued existence and viability of our native farm animals. The haveΒ a long watch list of native breeds of cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, goats and poultry, making sure no UK-native breed has become extinct

The Butcher's chop - we meet (or is that meat?) Matthew Edwards, 23, of Vaughan's Family Butchers, Penyffordd, near Chester competing later this month in the Butchery World Skills UK National

Canon Netting - the ringing of birds is one of the most important tools by which ornithologists can monitor the movements, populations and productivity of birds. And the more birds caught and ringed, the more data available for research but when you're faced with thousands of wading birds around our coasts where do you begin? Our reporter Huw Jenkins goes Canon Netting with theΒ  on the coast near Beaumaris.Β 

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  • Sun 8 Nov 2015 07:03
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