26/08/25 Countryside Code, pollinators, fruit farm bees.
The Countryside Code - how's it working? A government survey in England & Wales aims to find out.
A new stakeholder survey has been launched by Natural England and Natural Resources Wales to find out how the Countryside Code is working in England and Wales. The code in Northern Ireland is similar but runs separately, and in Scotland, where they have the Scottish Outdoor Access Code, access, rules are different. We speak to two farmers about whether they feel the code's working for them and what they'd like to see.
Pollinators play an essential part in crop production and we're looking at them all week. One fruit farm in Herefordshire imports bees from the Netherlands to pollinate fruit in polytunnels. We also speak to the insect charity Buglife.
Presenter = Charlotte Smith
Producer = Rebecca Rooney
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