Two hundred years ago Wales laid claim to being the leech-farming capital of Europe and once again it is back on the map. In the Victorian era Britain used over 42 million leeches a year for ...

Declining leech numbers and increasing prices led to attempts at leech farming, which seem to have failed although commercial stock are farmed today and at least one Welsh leech merchant has ...

There is a medical leech farm in Wales. Victoria is the mother of Hamish who was the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years.