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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Joanna Partridge in Skipton

‘People start connecting the dots’: why an investment fund is rewilding a North Yorkshire estate

Neil Melleney stands in a wooded area with fallen logs and green vegetation in a beaver enclosure
Neil Melleney, project developer lead for the rewilding consultancy Ecosulis, in the beaver enclosure at Broughton estate in North Yorkshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

From a high point on the hill, the North Yorkshire landscape unrolls below. The moorland above gives way to grassland, trees and then pasture, divided by the region’s traditional dry stone walls.

The view may be idyllic, but it belies the condition of parts of this land, belonging to the sprawling 1,100 hectare (2,500-acre) Broughton Sanctuary estate, near Skipton.

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