A shallow depression in a field might look like little more than a patch of wet ground. But beneath the soil, some of these forgotten hollows contain ecosystems that have been dormant for decades, or even centuries. In eastern England, one farming couple discovered that simply uncovering these buried ponds could trigger an astonishing return of wildlife, demonstrating that restoring nature sometimes means reviving what was already there.
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