🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode 3 Environment. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.

Episode 3 Environment. For many years Roger Finn was BBC South's Environment Correspondent. We asked him to suggest his personal top three environmental success stories from BBC South's fifty years of broadcasting.

NFG are indebted to the BBC staff at Southampton for their help in sourcing items for the archive. See more episodes in the Category - BBC South.

🎬A look at the work of The Forestry Commission Keepers. Described by the Keepers themselves.

Please note this film includes a deer cull sequence.

Featuring:
Martin Noble
Andy Page
John Gulliver

Carnyx Wild ©2002

🎬A look at how the Forestry Commission manage the New Forest. From the early days of forestry to the changing attitudes to wildlife, this film looks at modern day harvesting in the New Forest National Park.

🎬 (aka) A NEW LIFE - Chris Packham looks at the £2.9m project to restore the New Forest's wetlands. The New Forest Life Partnership. Sustainable Wetland Restoration in the New Forest. The documentary was filmed over four years to show the work undertaken and the impact on the Forest's wetlands.

Presenter Chris Packham
Filmed by Manuel Hinge
Editor Peter Dobson
Carnyx Wild ©2006 & 2015

The Restoration Project ran from 2002 to 2006.
The project restored a total of:
🟢261 hectares of riverine woodland
🟢18 hectares of bog woodland
🟢141 hectares of wet grassland
🟢184 hectares of valley mire
🟢10 kilometres of river

More Information (Copy & Paste):
https://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/projects/new-forest-life-iii-wetlands-project-0

🎬British Movietone - We're going to great pains to make sure the Great Bustard doesn't escape again. Europe's largest bird hasn't bred here since 1806. Now preservationists hope to install six of the birds, from Portugal, in ideally protected conditions on Salisbury Plain.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.