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ATTENBOROUGH BACKS AMBITIOUS WILDLIFE PROJECT

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December 2025

Sir David Attenborough gets behind the race to save a huge upland estate in Northumberland and restore it for wildlife

- Sophie Ellis

ATTENBOROUGH BACKS AMBITIOUS WILDLIFE PROJECT

In a race against time, the funds must be raised by September 2026 for the project to go ahead, otherwise the land is at risk of being broken up and sold to multiple buyers. The Wildlife Trusts (TWT) claims many landholdings will be “planted with nonnative conifers for commercial forestry”.

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