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JAKE FIENNES: The conservation director at Holkham estate in Norfolk tells James Fisher why Nature needs edge and mess.
NEWNHAM COLLEGE: Cambridge opened its doors to women scholars 150 years ago. Kathryn Ferry examines the carefully chosen style of its buildings. SAMPHIRE: The taste of a mermaid’s kiss is back on our plates.
WINDMILLS: Romantic reminders of times past, windmills across the UK are enjoying a new lease of life
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: David Profumo’s choice, a portrait of a fishing hero.
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The dormice of Wensleydale will have a nice surprise as they awaken from hibernation this year, thanks to a major conservation effort over the past few months. Annunciata Elwes explains.
Two fledgling populations of native endangered dormice in Wensleydale should now be waking from their winter slumber to discover a bigger, wider world, as local landowners and farmers have completed a six-mile corridor of woodland and hedgerow either side of Freeholders’ Wood at Aysgarth Falls.
The three-year Wensleydale Dormouse Project, which is funded by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), Woodland Trust, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and Millennium Trust, among others, is part of the PTES’s National Dormouse Monitoring Programme. Giving the populations room to roam is vital, as dormice are almost entirely arboreal and need to be able to walk along branches, hopping from on
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Trending: Fergus Granville grins after collecting some new material. Credit: Glyn Satterley for Country Life
Fashioned from driftwood, barbed wire, sea urchins and barnacle-encrusted plastic mannequins, Earl Granville’s eclectic sculptures are inspired by the Hebridean island of North Uist’s wild weather and terrain, discovers David Profumo. Photographs by Glyn Satterley for Country Life.
It’s a dreich October morning on the east coast of the island, the Hebridean sea temperature is 13˚C and a man of 60 clad in a wetsuit is cutting loose some female busts he’s tethered underwater for two years. They’re constellated in barnacles and covered in grape-like ascidians (sea squirts) and he grimaces with cold and triumph, for these mannequins are destined for his studio meet Fergus, 6th Earl Granville, laird of North Uist, godson of The Queen, who’s rapidly becoming a sculptor of rising repute.