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The 140-acre Keighley Habitat Bank, between Silsden and Riddlesden, will restore fields previously used for sheep grazing to their natural state - with meadows, scrub and woodland.
Keighley Habitat Bank will restore fields previously used for sheep grazing to their natural state. ... Moorland to be restored to its 'natural state' 14 April 2025. Share Save. Julia Bryson. BBC ...
The results were shared in a study that, for the first time, quantified the extent of the UK’s heather moorland habitat and its historical and potential losses.. The figures show an estimated 60 ...
Seventy-five percent of the world's heather moorlands are in the UK. However, pollution, overgrazing and wild fires have damaged large areas. Several organizations in the Peak District National ...
A herd of wild horses has been brought in to help restore moorland habitat to its natural state. The Konik horses have moved on to Bwlch Corog, near Machynlleth, Powys, to graze on grasses ...
A large area of slow-growing conifer trees in Cumbria is being felled to help restore a rare moorland habitat to its former glory. The RSPB has acquired 271 acres (110 hectares) of land at Denton ...
“We do not burn peat and we do not deliberately damage moorland habitat.” The Moorland Association said the single formal warning came because a permitted burn on shallow peat had spread to ...
Helicopter footage shows the extent of the devastating moorland fires on Winter Hill near Bolton. Russell Hedley from the Woodland Trust said whole ecosystems had been wiped out by the blaze ...
Mountain hare population in Scotland at 1% of 1950s level 'Severe' decline blamed on habitat changes and culling by managers of local grouse shooting moorland ...
Moorland plants possess an array of strategies to persist through fire including re-sprouting from protected buds (for example, purple moor grass) and underground structures called rhizomes (such ...
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