COMMUNITY BUY-OUT IN SCOTLAND SEEKS TO CREATE NEW NATURE RESERVE
A small charity in Langholm Moor, Scotland is trying to raise £5.2 million to bring a former shooting estate covering 10,500 acres into community ownership and transform it into a Nature reserve.
The buy-out, the largest of its kind in the south of Scotland, needs to raise £5.2 million by the end of October. At the time of writing around 1,500 people had donated a total of nearly £100,000. It has already secured one million pounds from the Scottish Land Fund.
Home to a wide range of biodiversity, Langholm Moor was ...
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