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The fight to save a historic English landscape

The fight to save a historic English landscape

Science Weekly vor 2 Monaten

Madeleine Finlay travels to the Rothbury estate in Northumberland to find out why the UK’s Wildlife Trusts are trying to raise £30m to buy it from its current owner

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Madeleine Finlay travels to the Rothbury estate in Northumberland,
in north-east England. It’s a piece of land that has been in the
same family for 700 years, but now it has been put up for sale and
the UK’s Wildlife Trusts are trying to raise £30m to secure it
intact. To find out what makes the area so special, Madeleine
speaks to Katy Barke, the head of nature recovery for
Northumberland Wildlife Trust. She also hears from Sam Turner, a
professor of archaeology at Newcastle University, who is trying to
work out how the land has been used across the centuries. This work
will inform the strategy for nature recovery on the site. And Rosie
Pearce, a farm liaison officer, explains how the project could
bring more wildlife-friendly farming practices to the estate. Help
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