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Country Focus: Tiny forests and Tortoise

Tiny forests and Tortoise

BBC Radio Wales - Country Focus, Tiny forests and Tortoise

Planting trees in urban spaces and looking after a tortoise.

We visit the tiny forest by the sea and learn what it takes to look after a pet tortoise.

The right tree in the right place and how it could save lives in the city.  We speak to an Urban Green Infrastructure Advisor for Natural Resources Wales on the need to plant more trees in  in our towns and cities for people and the planet.

Tiny forests -  the Welsh Government is offering grants of between ten and forty thousand pounds to plant trees in a small space under a concept of forest creation developed by a Japanese ecologist.  We hear how it works at a tiny forest in Cardiff Bay.

We talk pond creation in LLanwrtyd Wells -  the Freshwater Habitats Trust says ponds are a critically important but undervalued part of the freshwater network. 

and our reporter Mariclare Carey-Jones takes her tortoise for a check up at the International Tortoise Association in the Vale of Glamorgan

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