Today – we hear about the regular sessions which monitor the tiny invertebrate life of the River Cerne in Cerne Abbas – part of a national Riverfly scheme to check on the health of our rivers and streams by seeing what lives in them and how vibrant invertebrate populations are • Dr. Christopher Terrell Nield puts in a plea for more tolerance for the widely-disliked slugs • Wildlife writer and regular Countryside Matters contributor Jane Adams talks about seeds, and some of the wonderful ways that trees and other plants have evolved to disperse them • farmer George Hosford talks about the sorts of environmental payments available to farmers and comments on the recent rumour that the Government will be cutting £100 million from the £2.4 billion budget for the Environmental Land Management scheme. Presented by Jenny Devitt…
Jenny Devitt