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TWIN calves have hit the nationals by having their births announced in The Times newspaper.

Two rare breed calves are believed to be the first animals to have their births announced in The Times.

White Park cattle on the menu to revive at risk breed 27 May 2021 | Numbers of White Park cattle plunged as low as 60 in 1973, but have since recovered to 950 breeding cows An online meat company is using an innovative funding scheme to help the revival one of Britain’s rarest livestock breeds, the White Park cattle. North Yorkshire-based Farmison & Co has bought a herd of the rare breed, which were once associated with Druids and Celts. The herd and their young calves are now grazing on a ...

POLICE are highlighting the devastating impact of dog attacks on livestock as they urge owners to take responsibility for their pets.

LAND managers have spent the past three years planting, or bringing into ‘appropriate management’, hedgerows and woodlands either side of Freeholders’ Wood at Aysgarth Falls, where dormice were reintroduced in 2008. Farmers have even planted brambles – a plant they might usually regard as a thorny nuisance – in order to provide the mammals with late season fruit. Although now formally completed, the impact of the three-year ‘Wensleydale Dormouse Project’ will be monitored. S...

Hazel dormouse in hand. Picture: Clare Pengelly WOODS and hedgerows across a 9.5 kilometre stretch of mid-Wensleydale have been connected to create an ideal home for the endangered Hazel Dormouse. Land managers have spent the past three years planting, or bringing into ‘appropriate management’, hedgerows and woodlands either side of Freeholders’ Wood at Aysgarth Falls, where dormice were reintroduced in 2008. Farmers have even planted brambles – plants they might usually regard as...