wildlife

Countryfile — A Critical Season in the Forest brings Matt Baker and Sammi Kinghorn to Gethin Forest in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil at a moment when the South Wales valleys face pressures that mount with every degree of warming.

Countryfile – Oswestry Livestock Market opens a window onto a world that most people never see, a world of early mornings, mud-caked boots, and split-second decisions worth thousands of pounds.

Countryfile – The Chalk of the Chilterns takes you deep into one of England’s most quietly extraordinary landscapes. Beneath the rolling hills and wildflower meadows of the Chilterns lies something remarkable: a foundation of chalk that shapes almost everything living above it.

Countryfile – Vale of Evesham visits one of Britain’s most storied agricultural landscapes at precisely the moment when the season begins to turn

Across more than 550 square miles of moorland, gritstone edges and patchwork valleys, the UK’s first national park draws around 13 million visitors a year, yet it’s tended day after day by a surprisingly small cast of rangers, volunteers, scientists and farmers.

Countryfile – The National Forest – 10 Million Trees marks one of the most significant environmental milestones in recent British history, a moment that speaks volumes about what patient, determined effort can achieve in the landscape of the modern countryside.

Countryfile – Easter – The Sights and Sounds of Spring arrives at a moment when the British countryside is undergoing one of its most dramatic seasonal transformations, and this Easter special captures that shift with rare precision.

Countryfile – St Michael’s Mount – Some storms leave marks that last for generations. When Storm Goretti tore through Cornwall, it didn’t just bring wind and rain. It dismantled something precious.

Countryfile – Dusk Til Dawn steps into the shadows for one of its most atmospheric episodes yet. Dusk Til Dawn takes viewers deep into the North York Moors, a landscape transformed when daylight fades.

There are few moments in agricultural life quite like lambing season. For sheep farmers across Britain, it arrives like a tide — unstoppable, urgent, and utterly transforming. Days blur into nights.

The fields turn amber and rust, the air sharpens, and across the flatlands of eastern England, a very particular harvest is in full swing. This is the sugar beet harvest — and this week on Countryfile, Charlotte Smith and Vick Hope head east to tell its story.