Love Nature

A story of nature helping itself in the context of climate change, with cattle rather than humans shaping the environment, resulting in benefits for both cattle and farm alike.

Flora Beverley, the Founder of the Pollinator Pathways Project in Bristol, is transforming the city's alleyways by encouraging the local community with pollinator-friendly planting.

In Essex the oyster makes the natural world better, filtering and cleaning the estuary water. Tom, an eighth-generation oyster fisherman, explains how he adapts his techniques to the changing environment.

Red Kites were once a thriving species in Northern Ireland but due to disruption of their precious habitats, the bird went extinct. But conservationists have reintroduced the species.

Eryri National Park in North Wales has been designated one of only a handful of International Dark Sky Reserves on earth. As one world sleeps, another awakens.

Welcome to St Kilda, an isolated archipelago made up of four islands, west of Scotland's Western Isles. Rugged and remote, it's a place where nature flourishes in all its glory.

Wolves in the Wood is an initiative designed to encourage children to engage in outdoor play. Through mixed-age learning, creativity and freedom, the project nurtures confidence.

We discover how the humble fox should be celebrated not vilified when we spend a day with The Fox Project driver Nicki Townsend. Nicki receives an emergency call and discovers a fox trapped in netting.

The Cornish Seal Sanctuary rehabilitates around 70 seal pups a year. Rescued seals receive treatment, medication and rehabilitation before moving out to the nursery pool.

In a Sunderland backyard, owner Paul Rodgers shows how easy it is to make a pond, how best to plant it, and discusses the wide variety of nature that can come to these backyard oases.

In Holywood, County Down, a piece of land has been transformed into an edible forest garden shaped by patience, dedication, and care for wildlife.

A visit to a small family-run farm in mid-Wales which is the now a red kite feeding centre where hundreds of wild red kites come every day. It's a breathtaking spectacle.

Islay is Scotland's southernmost Inner Hebrides Island: a haven for nature lovers with stunning landscapes, abundant wildlife, beautiful beaches. This is the story of winter on Islay.

We follow Sally from Northamptonshire Badger Group as she checks on an urban badger setts tucked between houses, gardens and busy roads.

The Devon Wildlife Trust and numerous other partners are reintroducing pine martens into Dartmoor and Exmoor. As predators they balance the other animals and the ecosystem.

Following Alan Winlow, a lover of nature in his eighties, with a passion for tree planting. He has planted over 4000 trees but has a particular love for the willow tree.

Open water swimmer Mary O'Hagan found her life impacted by unprecedented algae blooms in Lough Neagh. She tells the story of how she created a campaign group called Save Our Shores.

A look at the hand-harvested sea salt, derived from the pristine seawater off the island of Anglesey, North Wales, that gets sprinkled on everything from Michelin-starred meals to popcorn.

Fidra is a small island in the Firth of Forth near North Berwick, Scotland and is a significant nesting site for Atlantic puffins, hosting around a thousand breeding pairs, with conservation.

This film follows Tim, a rooftop beekeeper in Birmingham, whose hives sit on an old factory roof and are one of the city centre's first urban beekeeping sites.

Aged six, Benji decided to turn the family garden into a nature reserve complete with a pond made out of the washing up bowl. He's now raised thousands of pounds for nature charities.

We meet the Chief Executive of Moor Trees as well as volunteers who help restore trees to ensure Dartmoor becomes a stronger and more resilient landscape in the future.

Expert Christopher Wren explains how otters were nearly wiped out in the 1970s and how, with volunteers, Gosforth Park, Newcastle, has become a flourishing haven for these creatures.

We join the marine conservation manager at Ulster Wildlife as his team deploys over 20,000 specially grown oysters into the sea this winter, re-introducing them to the area.

We meet a father and son who show how pigeon racing is both a sport and a way of life.

Shetland is a prime location for spotting orcas, especially when pods hunt seals near the coast. PHD student Julia researches the relationship between the killer whales and their prey.

A simple allotment in Coventry is transforming young lives in a project bringing together young people who were once isolated, spending most of their time indoors or online.

Every winter, the windswept north Norfolk coast sees the arrival of thousands of visitors when the seals return to breed. Friends of Horsey Seals tell us how this is their busiest time.

The greater horseshoe bat was once widespread in the UK but due to habitat loss their numbers plummeted. The Vincent Wildlife Trust look after around 50% of the UK's population.

A volunteer explains the history of sea glass on Seaham beach: strikingly beautiful glass pebbles that have been transformed by the sea over decades from the refuse of Victorian glass factories.

Cave Hill Country Park is a woodland slowly suffocated by invasive cherry laurel. We join Laura Shiels as she leads volunteers to restore the land by clearing non-native species.

We visit the towering Coastal Redwoods of Mid-Wales - one of the most historically significant stands of trees in the UK. Planted in the 1850s, these majestic trees thrive in the Welsh climate.

The rivers of the Cairngorms are alive with wildlife ranging from salmon to otters, dippers to kingfishers. At night, camps of bats glide over the water in search of food before they hibernate.

Sutton Park in Birmingham is one of Europe's largest urban national nature reserves. Senior ranger Danny Squire explains how grazing Exmoor ponies help preserve the heathland.

One in three mouthfuls we eat come from plants pollinated by bees. But bees are seriously under threat. We follow Nikki from The Bumblebee Conservation Trust on a smallholding in south Kent.

This stunning film showcases extraordinary wildlife off Devon and Cornwall as Rupert and Henry Kirkwood document sea life, including dolphins and giant Atlantic Blue Fin tuna.

The felling and fate of the Sycamore Gap tree caused sorrow among the public. But this film shows some of the inspiring responses to the loss of the century-old landmark.

The Portaferry seal sanctuary is a place where fragile seals can recover, as rescued grey pups go from critical medical care and rehabilitation to a second chance of life in the wild.

A look at a centuries-old deer park located in the heart of the Vale of Glamorgan on an estate that is home to three kinds of deer - Fallow, Red and Sika.

A look at a species of auk called black guillemots, known locally as Tysties, that nestle in the harbour wall of Oban Bay on the west coast of Argyll, arriving in May to begin nesting.

Society Place, a once neglected and rubbish-strewn walkway in Normanton, Derby, is now bursting with life thanks to local schoolchildren and the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

In Brighton we meet growers at an allotment who offer their produce to local food banks. The charity Nurture through Nature is staffed by volunteers, for whom gardening is a release.

Seagrass is the world's only marine flowering plant - a biodiversity hotspot that's home to amazing species. The Ocean Conservation Trust works to protect these plants for the future.

A Red Squirrel Survival Trust volunteer discusses the work of his local group and how they are helping these indigenous animals fight back against the more aggressive grey squirrels.

On a working farm in County Down, Katy Bell helps protect one of Northern Ireland's rarest birds - with fewer than 30 breeding pairs of barn owls in the country.

On a wet farm in mid-Wales, we meet shepherd Joel and his two highly intelligent and skilled Border Collies Nessie and Joe who are busily rounding up sheep.

The work of a field officer for Whale and Dolphin Conservation in the Moray Firth. They're ocean advocates for the need to protect the species we have.

Conservation charity FrogLife repairs failing ponds to make them ideal for amphibians.

We discover how even in our inner cities, bird watching is something any of us can do.

Rewilding Coombeshead is a 400 acre site aiming to recover everything from the European wildcat to water voles and beavers.

Demonstrating how anybody can grow their own produce and plants anywhere - even a balcony!

Exploring the hidden richness of Black Mountain above West Belfast.

The work of Kevin Stephens who discovered a hardy daffodil variety that, grown under stress in windswept conditions at altitude, produces a high level of a chemical used in drugs to treat Alzheimer's patients.

Observing black grouse performing the elaborate, competitive courtship displays to attract females called lekking. The strutting, stamping and calling are captured here advertising their strength and stature.

EkoJoe is a community market garden in Leicester that brings together locals who grow seasonal produce, fostering sustainable growing practices, including maintaining beehives and hedgehog habitats.

In Eastbourne, we join locals who have planted thousands of trees hoping to make the town carbon neutral. Founded six years ago, the charity now has hundreds of volunteers rewilding.

In Cornwall, The Screech Owl Sanctuary and Animal Park protects various species of owls, as well as conserving many other species, including stoats, weasels, white storks and polecats.

Highlighting a course of action that could change the shape of the coast nationwide, with seaweed and seagrass replacing concrete as changing seas damage the north east coastline.

In the woodlands of County Down, the Priority Species Manager tracks the return of native species of red squirrels - small, agile animals that once faced the threat of extinction.

A look at the astoundingly beautiful Dinorwic Slate Quarry landscape of North-West Wales - a UNESCO World Heritage site which, in its time was the second largest in the world.

We follow the team tracking nocturnal birds, storm petrels, off the remote island of North Rona. They have to use novel techniques to find where they are and how they are surviving.

Charity Birmingham Tree People - especially dedicated to adding trees to areas with higher levels of deprivation - work with the community to plant six new cherry trees in Handsworth Park.

At Limekiln Docks, we follow a volunteer from Thames21 as she and the team pull plastic from mudflats, monitor river health and contribute to the restoration of our urban waterways.

Fifteen years ago Katy South started up the Prickles & Paws Hedgehog rescue centre with her mum and the 'hogspital' now rehabilitates around 1400 hedgehogs every year.

Lack of light pollution means stars can be seen more clearly at Northumberland National Park. In the UK, the opportunity to see a totally black sky unaffected by light pollution is rare.

At an aquarium in Portaferry, a small group of penguins offer insight into a bigger global story about these flightless birds.

How a pair of brothers made the discovery of a lifetime on a beach near Penarth, when they found the first complete theropod skeleton in Wales and one of the earliest Jurassic dinosaurs known globally.

The impressive tens of thousands of Barnacle geese at WWT Caerlaverock.

The work of a Shropshire charity combating loneliness through a shared love of wildlife.