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National lottery cash injection set to save endangered peak district bumble bees

Finn Byrne Mar 5, 2020

Funding from the national lottery has allowed a project to be kick-started to save Bilberry Bees. The money has allowed the start of an initiative to stop the decline in the species number. One thousand bilberry plants are to be planted on the peak district moors and...

New ponds created in Sheffield to rescue falling newt population

Ryan Betts Feb 27, 2020

Wildlife is getting a helping hand as over 30 new ponds are being created to home a declining species of protected newts. Falling numbers of the Great Crested Newt has prompted Natural England to fund the creation and restoration of ponds across South Yorkshire and...