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Radio 3 Christmas Sound Walks BBC Countryfile magazine

Don’t miss these Christmas Sounds Walks on Radio 3

Seabirds above waves

Little terns experience best breeding season for 25 years at Norfolk nature reserve

Person silhouetted against starry sky

Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors named International Dark Sky Reserves

River Lugg destroyed by bulldozer December 2020

Bulldozer destroys an extensive stretch of Herefordshire river

101 writers, artists and musicians have written to the Government calling for more access to the countryside

Artists, writers and musicians call on the Government to extend countryside access in England

Autumn foraging for food and home cures in the BBC Countryfile magazine podcast

Autumn foraging for free food and simple cures with a modern herbalist in Bristol

PPE Litter, Cornwall, Great British Beach clean/Credit: Natasha Ewins

Great British Beach Clean finds PPE littering the UK’s shorelines

Tarbert ferry port on the Isle of Harris on the Outer Hebrides, Getty Images

Local community calls for legislation to reduce second-home ownership in Harris

Yesnaby Cliffs on Orkney Islands/Cre

Wave energy set to be trialled offshore near Orkney in 2021

Pine marten in tree/ Credit: Frantisek Koneval

Native predators forced into conflict by modified landscapes, finds study

American crayfish in cooking pot/Credit: Getty Images

Catching crayfish may hamper control of invasive species

Looking up at a tree canopy/Credit: Getty Images

The Woodland Trust aim to plant 50 million trees by 2021

Adult male Atlantic salmon leaping upstream to spawning ground, Topcliffe Weir, River Ribble, South Yorkshire, UK. © Jack Perks/Getty

Scientists raise concerns about captive-bred salmon in the wild

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Discussing rewilding with rural commentator Rob Yorke in the Black Mountains – a new podcast

‘Vigo’ the bearded vulture in farmland in the Lincolnshire fens, with a magpie for scale. © Ashley James

Analysis reveals the origins of the bearded vulture in the UK