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Country Focus: Pondweed and a Sweet Chestnut

Pondweed and a Sweet Chestnut

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Conserving rare aquatic plants on the Monty, and Wales' Tree of the Year.

Dredging the Monty Canal to improve water quality and protect rare aquatic plants. And, that old chestnut?! The 480 year old tree in the running to be crowned Tree of the Year.

Applications for the new Habitat Wales Scheme have opened but farmers call for a "funding rethink" and support with their food, farming and the environment ambitions

A fourth National Park for Wales?  People are being encouraged to have their say on the proposal for one in the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley area.

Nature loss on a "devastating scale" - the State of Nature report finds of almost 3900 different animals, plants and fungi studied, one in six are at risk of extinction now from Wales.
  
Pondweed - unlocking the ecological secrets of 2 rare aquatic plants on the Montgomery Canal as stretches are dredged to improve water quality.  

and it's time to get voting for a sweet, Sweet Chestnut in Wrexham!

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