Naturalist Chris Packham presents a hard-hitting personal take on what's going wrong - and sometimes right - with our precious wildlife and its conservation. In this episode, he looks at the state of wildlife on farms and finds many key species in decline. He follows a farmer who is giving up on government nature schemes to make more money from cash crops. He finds others committed to wildlife friendly farming but there remain big concerns that we are failing the nation's wildlife.
Naturalist Chris Packham presents a hard hitting personal take on what's going wrong - and sometimes right - with our marine wildlife and its conservation. Chris travels to Lundy to see how a no-take zone there has benefited undersea creatures and to Lyme Bay to see the impact of a scallop dredging ban. He finds conservationists and fishermen at loggerheads over proposed new marine conservation zones that may help to protect wildlife in the future.
Naturalist Chris Packham presents a hard hitting personal take on what's going wrong - and sometimes right - with our marine wildlife and its conservation. He finds non-native conifer plantations that do little to aid native wildlife and iconic places like the New Forest and Dartmoor that are suffering loss of habitat. He asks whether we are spending too much on cute and cuddly species like dormice and whether we should concentrate instead on connecting up important habitats like precious heathland that has been fragmented over the years.