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THE LIVING WORLD
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The Living WorldÌýis a gentle weekend natural history programme, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate encounters with British wildlife.
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"The Living World is the next best thing to being there. Our contributors are skilled naturalists who are able to reveal those fascinating facts about animals and plants that you don't always find in books. It's like having a personal guided tour of the countryside, without needing to leave the house."
Brett Westwood |
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Johnny Birks and Kate Williamson
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The Cat Comes Back
It was once one of the rarest mammals in Britain, confined to a small enclave in the remote Welsh Hills, but nowadays it could be on your doorstep, or more accurately , squashed on your local road. Polecats with their chocolate fur and bandit masks have recolonised large areas of lowland England where they've spread thanks to a decrease in persecution.
Johnny Birks from the Vincent Wildlife Trust is an ardent polecat seeker and has been mapping its return by studying road casulaties, often the only way he can chart its distribution. But as polecats reach as far as the East Midlands and Oxfordshire, there's new evidence that they're doing well in their Welsh stronghold too. Kate Williamson from the Snowdonia National Park has been studying the animals in the massive sand dunes at Morfa Dyffryn and Morfa Harlech and has found high densities in the rabbit burrows there.
Brett Westwood joins Johnny and Kate for a unique encounter with one of our most elusive wild mammals.
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