Scottish villagers plan to buy out landowners for eco moorland project
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from on (#550YW)
Despite funding challenges, community aims to increase biodiversity at Langholm Moor making it resistant to climate change
A small community in the rolling uplands of southern Scotland hopes to create a major new nature reserve, straddling more than 10,000 acres of heather moorland home to hen harriers, black grouse and curlew.
The 2,300 villagers of Langholm, a small settlement a few miles north of the English border, hope to buy one of the UK's most famous grouse moors, owned by one of the UK's most powerful hereditary landowners, the Duke of Buccleuch.
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