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Nature's Great Invaders: 5. Ash dieback fungus

5. Ash dieback fungus

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How do we protect our native wildlife from invisible invaders like the ash-dieback fungus.

Derek Mooney investigates if British wildlife can be protected from invisible intruders like ash dieback fungus? From 2016.

When trees infected with the ash-dieback fungus were first recorded in the UK in early 2012 there was widespread alarm. 

By 2016, are we closer to knowing what the final toll will be on our ash trees and with an uncertain political future how do we limit the risks posed by other invisible invaders? Derek Mooney intends to find out.

Telling the stories of non-native invasive species and our complicated attitudes to them and with an uncertain political future, how do we police our ecological borders?

Producer: Ellie Sans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.

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Natural history series telling the stories of Britain's non-native invasive species.

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