Rothbury (AFP) – A leading UK conservation charity is crowdfunding £30 million to buy a swathe of rolling moorlands and woodlands, in the largest land sale in England for three decades. The estate hosts thousands of hectares of “rare beauty” owned by an English lord and could become one of the UK’s biggest sanctuaries for biodiversity. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we can’t let this go,” says Peter Batchelor, the project’s managing director at The Wildlife Trusts.
