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Best UK beauty spots to see wildlife in action – from dolphins to puffins Now that Covid restrictions are finally relaxing and we can actually leave the house again, why not take a day trip to one of these UK beauty spots where you can see wildlife in action 15:29, 13 APR 2021 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now The Daily Stars FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign u...

A vertical mulcher machine is used to clear trees during the restoration of an ancient bog near Kielder Water in Northumberland. The ancient habitat, known as the Border Mires, is under threat from encroaching trees which are being removed as part of a A TIMBER harvester that chips a tree from top to bottom in just a few seconds is being used by Forestry England to speed up restoration of one of the UK’s most important peat habitats. The Border Mires is a network of 55 sphagnum bogs cover...

Machines that munch through trees in seconds are being used to speed up the restoration process in one of the UK’s most important peat habitats. Demand for timber in the post-war era saw spruce planted in the unique Border Mires network near Kielder Water in Northumberland, with drainage put in to help them grow. That dried out the nationally important sphagnum bog and the tree cover blocked out light in an environment where rare plant species should thrive. The mires, formed 12,000 years ago...

MACHINES that munch through trees in seconds are being used to speed up the restoration process in one of the UK’s most important peat habitats.

THE coast to coast cycle path is soon to have a new stop-off point in Cumbria as work on a £27,000 project gets underway. Work to connect the town of Cleator Moor with two sections of the route is set to begin this week. The two paths from Jacktrees Road and Leconfield Industrial Estate, currently used as informal access points to the track, will be improved to create multi-user paths to fully establish the connections. Work on the Jacktrees Road path is scheduled to start today and ta...

Farm leaders react with alarm at fresh bid to re-wild lynx 16 February 2021 | The prospect of its reintroduction has caused widespread concern from the farming industry Free range egg producers and sheep farmers have reacted with alarm at the latest bid to re-introduce lynx to parts of the United Kingdom. A year long study has been launched by a consortium of conservationists to see if the public would support reintroduction, with a view to releasing them within the next five years. The projec...

Beavers have been reintroduced to Dorset for the first time in 400 years, a wildlife trust has revealed. A pair of adult male and female beavers were introduced into an enclosure in the west of Dorset on Monday. The pair will live in a large area of freshwater habitat not accessible to the public which can be continually monitored by wildlife experts.  Rivers conservation officer Steve Oliver said welcoming beavers back to the county was fantastic. He said besides being magnificent creatures i...

The Government must be more ambitious in protecting UK peatland or risk international embarrassment over its failure on climate action, wildlife campaigners said. UK peatlands hold three times as much carbon as woodlands, but in their current degraded state – with peat damaged, drained, extracted or burned – they release 23 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, some 5% of the UK’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, the Wildlife Trusts said. Peatlands are also a precious wildlife habitat,...

Lynx, known as the "ghost cat" in Europe as they are rarely seen, became extinct in the UK in AD700.

HUNDREDS of people tuned into a live online consultation event over renewed plans to release lynx at Kielder Forest, the UK Lynx Trust has claimed.