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THE LIVING WORLD
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The Living World is a gentle weekend natural history programme, presented by Lionel Kelleway, 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."
Lionel Kelleway
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| Close up of some Culm Grassland in North Devon.Ìý © Peter Burgess / Devon Wildlife Trust. |
Culm Grassland
Presenter Lionel KellewayÌý heads to Devon to find out what links the World War 2 United States Air force, the Marsh Fritillary Butterfly and the United Kingdom’s rarest wild habitat?Ìý TheÌýanswer is Culm grassland.
The link to World War 2 US aircraft is the vital air reconnaissance photographs taken just post war which are showing conservationists the extent of this grassland 60 years ago before the vast agricultural take over for food production.
The Marsh Fritillary butterfly is the iconic animal that is born, grows up, reproduces and dies in these special meadows.
Culm its self is a unique mix of grasses and flowers supported by the Culm geological layer underneath, and the swampy conditions provided by artesian water year round.
With the help of the Devon Wildlife trust Lionel not only pads around this fascinating place but he discovers how the archived photographs taken by the USAF sixty years ago are providing vital evidence of extend of culm grassland before agricultural improvement and how restoration of the culm can be done so all the little pockets grassland can interlink and allow the Marsh Fritillary to fly between them. |
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