Norfolk Wildlife Trust revives endangered species: the local pub

From left: NWT’s Rachel Frain, John Blackburn and Andrew Pettitt, with the pub’s tenants Rick and Felicity Malt and their daughter. Photograph: Robert Smith

It was a much-loved endangered species that desperately needed saving, but it was still a surprise when the Norfolk Wildlife Trust stepped in to revive it.

The nature conservation charity has become the first wildlife trust to own a pub after restoring the Pleasure Boat Inn on the edge of Hickling Broad, a national nature reserve in the Broads national park.