18/05/2022 - dairy emissions, vet training, biodiversity audit and Weevil release
Rising costs have prompted the dairy industry to announce a six month delay in reducing carbon emissions.
The dairy industry has been committed to reducing the sector's greenhouse gas emissions by auditing the carbon footprint of each farm. But, due to the pressure of rising costs, it’s been agreed to delay those audits for another six months.
The biggest biodiversity audit in the country has just been carried out on the North Norfolk coast. It’s taken more than a year and produced more than a million biological records of over ten thousand species.
It's rare that a foreign species is introduced into the UK to fight off another which has taken hold, but after a decade of research, the government decided it would be safe to release South American Weevils to combat the serious invasion of the floating pennywort plant.
And this week we're looking at staff shortages in the vet industry and the first vet school in Wales.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audio by Caitlin Hobbs
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