PUPILS from the Upper Wharfedale Primary Federation have been busy planting trees and hedgerows at the four schools as part of encouraging more learning outdoors and the bringing to life lessons on the environment. At Cracoe school, 50 trees have been planted throughout the grounds, including a small copse within the school’s new wildlife garden. The garden project was initiated in 2019 with support of the Trustees of the Cracoe War Memorial Village Hall and the Swindon Quarry Environment Fund. Pupils, who have designed the garden, each researched and chose a native tree to plant and care for over their years at Cracoe. The children hope to encourage wildlife and are also working on a scheme to include a pond and beehives.
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Tarmac will be supporting the planting of another 1800 trees in the Yorkshire Dales this year thanks to their ‘People and the Planet’ initiative.
It is the second year of a ten-year partnership with Clapham-based Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, which will also see the education and development of 2500 people and the completion of a staggering 7700 hours of volunteering.
The initiative has already seen a small group of volunteers remove hundreds of redundant tree tubes from Bargh Wood near Stainforth last year and that work continued in Grassington recently.
Employees from Tarmac undertook general site maintenance at Pasture Wood in the village.
Project is part of national plan to help the endangered species prosper after numbers plunge by half
Dormice have become extinct in 17 English counties in the past 100 years. Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy
Dormice have become extinct in 17 English counties in the past 100 years. Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy
Sun 18 Apr 2021 02.30 EDT
For the first time in 100 years, dormice have the freedom to roam among the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Dales, thanks to a project to restore their delicate natural habitat.
Landowners and farmers in Wensleydale have grown a six-mile continuous stretch of woodland and hedgerows to provide a highway to join up two fledgeling populations of the charming native mammals.
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