A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Jon Tinker
New Wildlife for New Forests - a policy in the making
The second of two programmes on British Forests in the future. From regarding most wild animals as vermin, the Forestry Commission has gradually come round to tolerating them - and even making people pav to watch them. Should we go further and deliberately encourage forest wildlife to the point of bringing back wild boar and pine martens?
Speakers include Bill Grant, Chief Forester, Grizedale Forest
Kenneth Williamson, British Trust for Ornithology
J. E. Lousley, Vice-President Botanical Society of the British Isles
Richard Steele, Monks Wood Experimental Station, Nature Conservancy
Brunsdon Yapp, author of Birds and Woods