'Alternative future': Yorkshire Dales restoration scheme aims to set an example ahead of COP26

Cecilia Keating
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A host of green groups have teamed up with local communities to restore over 1,150 hectares around Ingleborough, the second highest peak in the Dales

WWF, Natural England, and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have kicked off a major landscape restoration project in the Yorkshire Dales that aims to provide a blueprint for how the UK's uplands could be transformed...

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