Hares box, stags rut and butterflies once extinct in Britain dance in meadows that Sir David Attenborough warns are severely at risk, in his latest BBC One series.
In a new episode, which airs on Sunday, Wild Isles reveals that just 1% of the UK is covered by grasslands on which many creatures rely for survival.
Veteran presenter Sir David, 96, recalls in the programme: “When I was a boy, back in the 1930s, growing up in Leicester, I spent days on my bicycle exploring the local countryside.
