New marine conservation zones, Badger baiting, Watercress

Farming Today

• Episode: New marine conservation zones, Badger baiting, Watercress
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:33
• Published: 2019-05-31 11:22

DEFRA is expanding conservation areas around the UK coast. There are already 50 of them, now it's creating 41 new zones, eight times the size of London. The Government says it will protect habitats and species but a professor of marine biology says they won't work unless fishing boats are banned from them. The National Wildlife Crime Unit has a new man in charge of badger persecution. Police and the RSPCA want to increase awareness of badger baiting, they say it's still a serious problem. Farming minister Robert Goodwill's been to the Bath and West Show. Five generations of watercress growers in Wiltshire.