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Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 15: Rewilding/Devonshire Beavers

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood takes a look at what could happen if parts of the British countryside were returned to their natural state through a process known as rewilding. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 11: Goliath Grouper/Asiatic Lion/Waxwings

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood presents international nature stories, including reports from the Caribbean about the success of goliath groupers and a report from India on the Asiatic Lion. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 1

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood returns for more on wildlife conservation, beginning with a look back at the summer of 2012. How has one of the wettest summers on record affected our wildlife? Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 7

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood visits wildlife film festival Wildscreen which aims to promote an appreciation of biodiversity and nature through the power of wildlife imagery on a global scale. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 21: Bonobos and Dragon Trees

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Presented by Brett Westwood. Featuring a report from the Congo basin on the plight of bonobos and a look at dragon trees on the island of Madeira. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 20: Marine Conservation Zones

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood presents the latest news on the designation of conservation areas around the English and Welsh coast. Are wildlife considerations in the final decisions? Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 19: International Wildlife

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood looks at the relationship between polar bears and sea ice in the Arctic, elephants in India, and salmon research in Dorset. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 16: Wildlife Art / Wildlife Gardening Forum

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood takes a look at the relationship between wildlife conservation and art, a report on wildlife gardening, plus a growing scientific movement. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 22: Freshwater Eels and Mitten Crabs

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood looks at the invasive Chinese mitten crab, plus challenges faced by both American and European freshwater eels. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 2

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood looks at bats and how research is looking at finding ways to allow them to fly unhindered in an increasingly urbanised land. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 9: Citizen Science / Giant Harvestman

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood explores the growing phenomenon of citizen science, the contribution made by amateur naturalists to the understanding of the natural world. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 4

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Saving Species has the call of the sea in its sights. Brett Westwood examines some of the issues that make a healthy marine environment vital to a functioning natural world. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 18: Wetland Habitats

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Joanna Pinnock brings in the New Year with the clatter and spectacle of a winter wader site in Hampshire. Plus a report on the plight of Britain's native oysters. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 13: Sausage lichen; Turkmenistan; hen harriers

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood looks at the creation of a vast nature reserve in Turkmenistan, and takes a closer look at strange sausage-shaped lichens in Wales. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 24: Rarities and Recordings

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

In the last episode of the current series, Brett Westwood looks at a bird on the edge of extinction - the slender-billed curlew - plus the declining levels of UK moths. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 23: British and Arctic Mammals

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood, the BBC Natural History Unit and the Open University look into the world of wildlife and conservation. British and Arctic Mammals. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 12: Ash Dieback/Managing woodlands

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood examines the likely impacts of Ash dieback on our wildlife and how serious a threat diseases are to our trees in general. Show more

Saving Species

Series 3

Episode 14: Scottish Species Action Framework

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brett Westwood on the world of nature and wildlife conservation. This week he discusses Scotland's wildlife initiatives at the Scottish Natural Heritage conference in Edinburgh. Show more