Our special programme on all things countryside and the outdoors: farming, gardening, wildlife and the environment. ‘Countryside Matters’ brings you mostly Dorset topics but further afield, too. So join Jenny Devitt, on Monday evenings for ‘Countryside Matters’ – and it does! Here’s the latest edition…
In another fascinating programme Mike Burks talks about a recent dinner he went to in London attended by a number of MPs where he spoke about the role that small and medium businesses, like the Gardens Group, could play in helping the U.K. to reach net zero. And he also talks about the importance of rainwater and recycling it and re-using it where it falls! • Dutch biologist and specialist in asexual plant evolution Dr. Yannick Woudstra is making a special study of the resilience and abundance of dandelions in towns and cities and how they are able to cope with the greater heat found in those environments than in the countryside • And marine ecologist Professor Martin Attrill of Plymouth University talks about the recent U.N. Ocean Conference, and the importance of reducing the destruction caused by commercial fishing practices like bottom trawling.
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