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UK NEWS Sir David Attenborough is backing
Su olk Wildlife Trust’s biggest-
£1m needed to create ever appeal – to raise £1 million to
a giant wetland here create a giant nature reserve in
The Broads. If the appeal
succeeds, the purchase would
expand Carlton and Oulton
Marshes, and establish a 1000-acre
wetland. All donations are most
welcome: suffolkwildlifetrust.org

TOM MARSHALL

SUFFOLK WT This would be habitat The appeal has Sir David’s support
restoration on a
TERRY WHITTAKER 2020 VISION landscape scale. Can Pine marten have
you help it happen? been absent from
most of England for
Pine martens more than a century
back in
Shropshire

Shropshire Wildlife Trust are
supporting what may be the
only breeding population of
pine marten in England.

The animals were first
observed on a trail camera,
and thought to be migrants
from Wales passing through.
Subsequent monitoring
revealed a small population in
the woodlands of the Clun
Valley.

Several woodland owners
in the Valley have already
agreed to manage their land
with pine marten in mind and
are working with the Trust to
install over 100 den boxes.
Local volunteers are helping
with scat searches to further
monitor the animals.

With improved denning
options, the Trust thinks the
pine marten can become
fully established in
Shropshire. More on
shropshirewildlifetrust.org.
uk/pinemartenproject

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