Italian rice farmer Alice Cerutti has restored about a third of her 110-hectare farm to its natural state, creating wetlands and woodland that now support rare wildlife. At Cascina Oschina farm on the Vercelli plain in north-west Italy, she has planted more than 10,000 native plants, helping butterflies and dragonflies thrive and attracting rare birds.
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