Episode 27
This week Saving Species is all about trees and forests. Read more
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Series 2
This week Saving Species is all about trees and forests.
Episode 28
Brown hares are in decline in North Wales, but why?
Episode 29
Brett Westwood investigates fungi with tights, or the attack of the powder cap strangler!
Episode 30
Brett Westwood rounds up a busy year and revisits some key stories from Saving Species.
Sustaining Life
The wildlife conservation programme Saving Species discusses human population and nature.
Series 3
Episode 1
Brett Westwood looks back at the summer of 2012. How did the wet summer affect wildlife?
Episode 2
Brett Westwood looks at ways to allow bats to fly free in an increasingly urbanised land.
Episode 3
Is it going to be brownfield sites that will provide the room for wildlife to flourish?
Episode 4
Saving Species examines the health of marine environments from across the world.
Episode 5
Brett Westwood examines some of the issues UK's freshwater resources are facing.
Episode 6
Autumn is a time when the animal world is on the move with specific threats to survival.
Episode 7
Brett Westwood asks if film-makers put anything back in terms of wildlife conservation.
British Raptors
Birds of prey numbers are rising in the UK, but not every countryside user welcomes this.
Citizen Science / Giant Harvestman
Brett Westwood explores the growing phenomenon of citizen science.
Wildcats and tooth fungi
A look at two rare species - the Scottish wildcat and the bearded tooth fungus.
Goliath Grouper/Asiatic Lion/Waxwings
Brett Westwood reports on goliath groupers in the Caribbean and the Asiatic Lion of India.
Ash Dieback/Managing woodlands
Brett Westwood examines the likely impacts of Ash dieback on our wildlife.
Sausage lichen; Turkmenistan; hen harriers
Brett Westwood looks at the creation of a vast nature reserve in Turkmenistan.
Scottish Species Action Framework
Brett Westwood reports from the Scottish Natural Heritage conference in Edinburgh.
Rewilding/Devonshire Beavers
Can the process of urbanisation of the British countryside be reversed through rewilding?
Wildlife Art / Wildlife Gardening Forum
Brett Westwood takes a look at the relationship between wildlife conservation and art.
British Overseas Territories
Howard Stableford looks at conservation issues in some of the British Overseas Territories
Wetland Habitats
The first day of 2013 sees Saving Species revelling in a winter wildfowl spectacle.
International Wildlife
International wildlife with polar bears in Svalbard, Asian elephants and salmon in Dorset.
Marine Conservation Zones
Latest news on the designation of conservation areas around the English and Welsh coast.
Bonobos and Dragon Trees
Saving Species reports from the Congo basin on the plight of bonobos.
Freshwater Eels and Mitten Crabs
Brett Westwood looks at the invasive Chinese mitten crab, plus freshwater eels.
British and Arctic Mammals
Brett Westwood, the 成人快手 Natural History Unit and the Open University look into wildlife.
Rarities and Recordings
Brett Westwood looks at a bird on the edge of extinction - the slender-billed curlew.