RETURNING LAND TO THE COMMUNITY AT A COST

 THIS POST IS REALLY ABOUT WHO OWNS BRITAIN

FROM RAPTOR PERSECUTION UK

\TARRAS VALEY VOLUNTEERS RECLAIM PHEASANT REARING WOOD FROM LANGHJOM MOOR 

In 2020 the community of Langholm in the Scottish Borders successfully raised £3.8 million to buy a knackered old grouse moor from the Duke of Buccleugh and transform it into a vast new nature reserve for the benefit of wildlife and the local community (see here).

Many blog readers supported and contributed to this fundraising challenge (thank you) and helped create what is now called the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve.

Kudos to the volunteers who have been busy in recent weeks clearing old fences, netting and feeding barrels from the woods which were formerly used for pheasant-rearing/shooting. 

(You can see their efforts - photographically - on social media)

In November 2021 the community began fundraising once again, to ‘finish what we started’, and has launched stage two of the biggest community buyout scheme in south Scotland to buy the remainder of Langholm Moor which would effectively double the size of the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve.

If you’d like to make a contribution to help support this impressive lot, please visit their crowdfunder here.