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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Scottish rewilding project hits 2 2m buyout target - What They Never Told You

Tarras Valley
The Tarras Valley project is to include peatland restoration, new native woodlands and bird conservation. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

A rewilding project on a former grouse moor at Langholm in southern Scotland has doubled in size after a “rollercoaster” fundraising campaign by local activists.

The Langholm Initiative announced on Friday it had finally raised the £2.2m needed to buy out a further 2,415 hectares (5,300 acres) of moorland from one of Scotland’s largest hereditary landowners, the Duke of Buccleuch.

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