Countryfile

Northumberland (30x18)

Data di messa in onda: Mag 06, 2018

Anita Rani is in Rothbury, being put through her paces with the mountain rescue team and hearing how new technologies are helping search-and-rescue operations. Anita then goes to Amble. She visits the lobster hatchery that is giving the area's shellfish stocks a helping hand. She sees how the baby lobsters are reared before being released back into the waters. Matt is on Coquet Island, the only place in the UK with a breeding population of roseate terns. As peak breeding season approaches they need to make sure everything is in place. Matt get busy constructing nest boxes for the terns, preparing the shingle (which they like to bed into) and rigging up the nest cams. Steve Brown takes in the wildlife at Hauxley Nature Reserve. He meets James Common, whose wildlife blogging has earned him a place in the finals of this year's UK Blog Awards. Tom Heap looks into the export of live animals for slaughter from the UK and the calls for it to be banned after Brexit.