30 year old Teleri is a new entrant farmer who, despite not growing up on a farm, has always wanted to be in agriculture - announcing to her Mum at the age of four that she wanted to be a 'lady farmer'!

Teleri has recently began a 10 year tenancy on a 100acre farm in Nantmor, Beddgelert with her fiancé Ned (who also isn’t from a farming background!) and sheepdogs Roy and Ralff. She works off-farm for FUW (Farmers’ Union of Wales) and is also on the Nature Friendly Farming Network steering group for Wales.

Barbara is an ecologist and climber who was, until a few years ago, the Upland Ecologist for Wales involved in researching and advising on the ecology, conservation and management of the Welsh uplands. Her main interest is in arctic-alpine vegetation and she is the expert on the Snowdon Lily. Cwm Idwal is a special place for arctic-alpines and it was Barbara who worked to conserve these plants and increase the size of their populations by removing most grazing from the Cwm. Hopefully, you have spotted the difference there in recent years!

Barbara often pops up on TV as ‘the strange woman who hangs off ropes looking at plants in the mountains. She has a long association with the BMC where she acts as an adviser on the interaction between climbing and the natural world. She taught outdoor education for a number of years and being an active climber she works hard to help reduce conflict between recreation and conservation interests. In recent years this has included setting up the ‘Groups in Gorges’ initiative, the White Guide booklet, informing winter climbers how to reduce their impact on cliff vegetation and writing conservation notes for the Climbers Club guides in North Wales.

Steve Long is an International Mountain Guide, Author of “Hillwalking” and “The Climbing Handbook", editor of Professional Mountaineer magazine, former Senior Instructor at Plas y Brenin, former Chief Officer of Mountain Training UK, former Development Officer for AMI, former Head of Cwm Pennant Outdoor Centre and currently Chairs the Training Committee of the UIAA and is project leader for the multi-lingual Alpine Handbook. Steve has trained walking and climbing leaders and their tutors in Ladakh, Jordan, Nepal, Kenya, Turkey, Malaysia and Mongolia... So, it’s safe to say Steve knows a thing or two about the Outdoors. On a personal level Steve is a brilliant, remarkably enthusiastic climber, gardener, political commentator, raconteur and friend. Interview by Mike Raine.

This is an informal chat with Julian about how he got into birding. The conversation is aimed at mountain leaders, mountaineering instructors and anyone else who enjoys walking in the hills, Julian talks about his early influences and key moments, he helps us to understand why north Wales is so good for birds, and through stories helps us to learn a little more about the birds we’ll see on the hills, the coast and in our woodlands.

Golden eagles and white-tailed eagles are biggest of our birds, there's a real thrill when you see them, find out more by listening to this podcast.

The buzzard, known as the lazy raptor, often dismissed as 'only a buzzard', find out why...

A much maligned bird, but it does have it's attractions. It's also a bird you frequently see in the mountains, so here's an introduction.