Two linked articles on the BBC News website cover stories about restoring the historic natural environment.
The first is about an initiative in Swindon by a local councillor to plant saplings of the Black Poplar in his ward. The tree is now a rarity in England as the conditions for its successful propagation and growth have declined yet it was once a frequently recurring feature in wet lowland areas. Thanks to books such as the late Oliver Rackham’s splendid and stimulating Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape and his History of the Countryside we are more aware of our ancient woodlands. There have also been moves to restore, regenerate and recreate these historic locations and foster them for their wider environmental impact.
The article about the Swindon initiative can be seen at Joining the mission to save Britain's rarest tree
Linked to it in the report is one of an ornithological success in the same county of Wiltshire in the reintroduction of the Great Bustard to Salisbury Plain. This ongoing project seems now to be establishing breeding pairs literally on the ground in Cranborne Chase. The article can be read at Bustards nest found in Cranborne Chase for first time
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