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Ottawa-based wildlife photographer Michelle Valberg tells this story of when she was in search of the wild muskoxen known to roam the frozen tundra of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. She spent days driving a snowmobile in -50C temperatures, expecting to come across the shaggy-haired mammals, whose numbers can run in the tens of thousands.  The flat lighting conditions made it difficult to decipher the contours of the vast land, but Valberg remained hopeful each time her sled came over a crest that the herds would finally appear. They never did. “We saw, in three and a half days,...

24 Dec 2020, 08:17 The man behind the eagerly anticipated Eden Project North in Morecambe talks about his lockdown chickens, working while walking along Cornish country lanes, and his mantras to live by. Why did you choose a career in property? I didn’t really! I am just lucky to be working on a series of place-based projects across the world that aim to change our relationship with the planet and the lives of those people who come into contact with those places. Who was your mentor and what was the best piece of advice they gave you? I have had two – my first proper boss, Matthew, who to...

Neil Tague The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership has committed £1.2m to help cover costs as a planning application is progressed for the Morecambe attraction. The investment from the LEP will fund the next stage of design work, further developing the content of the project and conducting the environmental impact and sustainable transport work required for planning consent. Eden aims to complete this work in time to submit a planning application in 2021, with the £125m project aiming for an opening date of 2024. The LEP is one of four regional partners on Eden Project North, the others being...