Country Focus

Where the land meets the sea there is a rich, but fragile habitat - but what can it tell us about the health of our shores? The Shore Search Intertidal Surveys project monitors that sea life to better understand the effects of pollution, climate change and invasive alien species. Pauline Smith joins the marine team of the North Wales Wildlife Trust and volunteers at Criccieth beach on the Llŷn peninsula to discover more.

Overcrowding and lack of capacity in prisons has been dominating the headlines recently but at the UK's only prison dairy farm, state of the art milking machines have been installed, in the hope of improving the chance for prisoners to gain employment on release and cut reoffending rates. Mariclare Carey-Jones goes on a visit to Cilwrgi Farm, near Pontypool in the historic county of Monmouthshire and hears how it's a working dairy farm but with a difference - it's home to a herd of 120 pedigree Holstein cattle, managed by staff and prisoners working as a team at HMP Prescoed.

In the "Year of the Sea", we explore some of the amazing lighthouses located around our Welsh shores.

On the northern edge of the Cors Caron National Nature Reserve is a mixed livestock farm that proudly boasts a host of bird and wildlife species. To discover more, presenter Pauline Smith visits Cruglas Farm, in the village of Swyddffynnon, which is home to ornithologist, farmer and conservationist, Terry Mills. It's also home to Welsh Black cattle and around 500 breeding ewes plus.....145 different bird species, 26 types of butterflies, 9 species of bat and almost every large mammal you can think of! Terry has been managing the habitats on his farm to support existing and new wildlife as the climate changes. He stops short of calling it rewilding but believes wildlife and farming go hand in hand. The farm is now a blueprint for a collaboration with neighbouring farmers, who all border the Cors Caron National Nature Reserve. Run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Bro Cors Caron Sustainable Management Scheme, is a farmer led project, restoring hedgerows, putting in ponds and creating wildlife corridors to reverse local biodiversity declines whilst also allowing for productive and profitable pastoral farming.

This term a project is underway to redesign and build a resilient food supply. Called Welsh Veg in Schools it's a pilot project, co-ordinated by Food Sense Wales, that aims to get more organically produced Welsh veg into primary school meals across Wales. Caroline Evans visits Dinas Powys primary school in the Vale of Glamorgan to hear how it's going down with the kids at lunchtime! We visit grower, Bonvilston Edge producing vegetables for the scheme and Castell Howell who distribute them to the schools.

We live in a throw away society but if we're to tackle the climate emergency that we face our habits have to change. This week, we're in Pembrokeshire where communities are coming together to reduce household waste and instead - make do and mend! Pauline Smith visits the Big Repair Cafe at Scolton Manor where experts from across the county have come together to repair things like bikes; textiles; ceramics; electricals - you name it they'll find a way to fix it! We also visit the Library of Things in Haverfordwest where you can borrow items and drop into TYF Adventures in St David's where we hear how organisations are working closely together, as part of the Pembrokeshire Circle, to benefit the community

Whether you're visiting a beach on the Gower Peninsula or a mountain lake in Gwynedd, it seems people in Wales are embracing the tradition of a sauna. As well as associated health benefits its a chance to be outdoors and at one with nature. There's been a proliferation of saunas, in mostly wooden huts, popping up across Wales particluarly at the coast or inland beauty spots but Country Focus drops into the Sawna Dyfi Project, between Aberdyfi and Machynleth offering a community sauna... in a converted horsebox!

Rural Buses - what would a good bus network look like in rural Wales? The Welsh Government is set to trial a new bus franchise in communities in Ceredigion and Powys to bring about reform and a more customer-focused, integrated network of services. We speak to the cabinet minister for Transport

Wildlife dogs - we meet the dog breeders in Carmarthen, who train conservation dogs to work on anti-poaching projects in Africa.

Our bird of conservation concern is the amber listed Grey heron

and the Ceredigion seaside village of Borth and it's vibrant colourful street art.

An all-Wales Avian Influenza Prevention Zone is introduced in Wales, requiring all keepers of poultry and other captive birds to practice good biosecurity and vigilance to protect their flocks. As the disease spreads among birds, a human case of the H5N1 virus has occured but the UK Health Security Agency says the risk to the public remains very low.

Greyhounds - our reporter Mariclare get exclusive access to the only greyhound race track in Wales that started running licensed races at the end of last year, as campaigners lobby the Welsh Government to ban it.

and what? no Romans?! We hear about an archaeological mystery at Pendinas hillfort at Penparcau, near Aberystwyth, in Ceredigion.

Farmers protest in a "National Day of Unity" over farm Inheritance Tax but with much change and uncertainty what are their concerns? I join the FUW's Farmhouse Breakfast week in the Senedd

Mud - we hear how Welsh mud and silt could make a sizeable contribution in the sequestration of carbon - but are we overlooking it's benefits in our quest to tackle global warming?

Protecting historic, archaeological sites from"complete destruction" as off-road bikers illicitly use ancient monuments as racetracks.

We meet two women honoured for their outstanding work in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority

and the village of Y Felinheli, on the edge of the Menai Strait, celebrates local talent in music, poetry, and performance once again after their eisteddfod was disbanded half a century ago.