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Country Focus: A Rare Beetle and Mystery Seeds

28/04/2024

A Rare Beetle and Mystery Seeds

BBC Radio Wales - Country Focus, A Rare Beetle and Mystery Seeds

Saving the rainbow beetle, and how old are Glenys’ runner beans?

A rainbow of hope to save a mountain beetle, and the mystery of a seed donation given to a group of growers in Llandrindod Wells.

Air Ambulance - campaigners threaten legal action over plans to close air ambulances bases in Wales

We visit a heronry in Carmarthenshire to hear how their fairing after the British Trust for Ornithology reveals  the latest findings from its long-running Heronries Census.  

Mystery beans - volunteers at the Seed Library in the Hive Community Space in Llandrindod investigate a donation of some seeds.  “Glenys’ Runner Beans"  have been passed down through a number of generations - but how old are they and how can they help local growers?   

The Snowdon beetle is believed to be down to the last thousand on the slopes of the mountain where it lives. But we hear about plans to help save it from possible extinction.

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