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Country Focus: Beavers, Butterflies and Photography

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Beavers, Butterflies and Photography

BBC Radio Wales - Country Focus, Beavers, Butterflies and Photography

Beavers released in Powys, helping the marsh fritillary & a passion for nature photography

Beavers are released into an enclosure near Machynlleth. A unique conservation project to help the marsh fritillary. And for the love of wildlife, capturing wildlife on camera.

A pair of beavers have been released into a secure enclosure on Cors Dyfi Nature Reserve, in Powys.  It's hoped their re-introduction will help fell willow trees and stabilise ecosystems.  We get an update on how the family are settling in to their new home!

We hear about a unique conservation project to help the Marsh Fritillary butterfly - an iconic species in Wales, on the brink of extinction.

How Coronavirus has spurred a little more self sufficiency - a man whose childhood dream has turned into a reality and developed his own smallholding!

and we meet the young, amateur photographer with a keen interest, not to mention talent, for capturing the wildlife around his home in the Vale of Glamorgan

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