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Farming Today: 14/04/23 Nepalese workers exploited; re-introducing sea eagles; new wetlands

14/04/23 Nepalese workers exploited; re-introducing sea eagles; new wetlands

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 14/04/23 Nepalese workers exploited; re-introducing sea eagles; new wetlands

Nepalese workers exploited by employment agency. Sea eagle re-introduction. New wetlands.

Nepalese workers charged £12,000 each to work in the UK - agency that hired them loses its licence.
Plans to re-introduce sea eagles in Wales.
Creating wetlands for biodiversity.

An investigation by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, or the GLAA says that hundreds of workers in meat processing, recruited from Nepal, were exploited and found to have paid 12 thousand pounds to find a job. Such fees are illegal in the UK. The company, Adept and Agile, has lost its licence and the two directors - one based in Surrey, the other in Nepal, have been handed an interim Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order. We speak to Nicola Ray, head of regulation at the GLAA.

Conservationists in Wales hope to reintroduce white-tailed eagles. It's been done in Scotland, but NFU Cymru says farmers in Wales are concerned the birds of prey would hunt newborn lambs.

All week we're looking at biodiversity. Wetlands are precious areas for particular species, and in Buckinghamshire a new project is creating a ten hectare site which will provide a home for wetland plants, aquatic and semi-aquatic invertebrates, amphibians and fish. Thousands of tonnes of topsoil had to be removed from the site on the Waddeston Estate which is managed by the Rothschild Foundation. The underlying clay will form the base for a series of ponds, and the plan is to allow nature to re-colonise the site.

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