大象传媒

Anna Hill hears claims that the 20 million pheasants missed by shooters each year are damaging our ecosystems. A trip to Venus Pool nature reserve in Shropshire, run by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust, shows how pheasants are competing for food with struggling farmland birds, and providing easy meat for foxes and birds of prey. The British Association of Shooting and Conservation disagrees, and say pheasants which survive are not a problem.

And 10 years on from the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, Farming Today speaks to the UK chief veterinary officer Nigel Gibbons. He says the country is now much better prepared, and if the disease struck again, the countryside would not be closed down.

Presented by Anna Hill Producer Melvin Rickarby.