Watch Countryfile on Sunday

​​​Cranborne Chase AONB will be featuring on Countryfile at 6pm this Sunday, 9 May.

We'll only know what's on when we watch, but several items they filmed complement topics covered in our own schedule of talks and field trips so may be of particular interest.  Knowledge, practice and understanding are growing all the time, so it's well worth tuning in to catch up on:

Comet Neowise over Tisbury - Tim Jones

Dark Skies: Steve Tonkin, the AONB Dark Skies Advisor, (Young Nature Watch, 'Space travel online experience', 30 March)  was filmed discussing our amazing dark skies and may also mention the AONB's Dark Sky Custodians and Dark Sky Accreditation Scheme, part of the Starry, Starry Night project.

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River Nadder - Peter Shallcross

Rivers: The AONB's Crystal Clear Ebble project with the Wessex Rivers Trust - Alex Deacon, their Catchment Partnership Manager, talked to us last September,   and we've also looked at the Nadder with a Field Trip in September last year and a talk coming up in October and back in 2017 we heard about Fish of the River Avon.

​Farming: The Countryfile team focussed on the amazing work being done by the Martin Down Farmer Cluster, facilitated by the Game & Wildlife Conservation trust - Peter Thompson from the Trust gave us a fascinating and

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Field margin near Win Green - Elizabeth Forbes

​encouraging talk last 19 November, Neil Harley told us about what he's doing near Tisbury on 28 January, and in 2019 Gary Rumbold  explained the work of the Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group.

If you'd like to catch up on any of these, many are covered in Talks or Field Trips/What you missed, or just email me.

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