National Trust

A scheme in Purbeck, Dorset, is creating hundreds of acres for wildlife and livestock with funding from Government’s nature-friendly farming scheme.

The project comes as part of wider efforts to tackle climate change and bring communities closer to nature.

The discovery was made during routine work to install a drainage system at the National Trust property at Castle Ward in Co Down.

The National Trust’s review of the year’s wildlife and weather sees past drought give way to wet, mild conditions in 2024.

The National Trust says 2024 was good for trees, heather and seals but bad for bees, butterflies, bats and natterjack toads.

A new viewing platform will let visitors to Corfe Castle get close to Henry I’s keep, which was built in 1107 but destroyed in the English Civil War.

Seedlings have been grown from the tree beside Hadrian’s Wall which was illegally felled.

Orford Ness in Suffolk was used as a military test site during both world wars and into the nuclear age and was sold to the National Trust in 1993.

Two men deny causing £622,000 damage to the famous tree

Whipsnade Tree Cathedral’s ‘cloister wall’ ash trees have been felled and replaced with resilient wild service trees.