Attempt to turn a stretch of the English-Scottish border into a commercial forest exposes threat to habitats from wealthy investors

On the English-Scottish border a small species of butterfly, the northern brown argus, has fended off one of the biggest investors in the UK.

Todrig, with its heath moorlands and hundreds of species of flora and fauna, represents an investment that could save Britain’s wealthiest families millions of pounds in inheritance tax.

But first the ground needs to be cleared, and sown with commercial tree saplings – a plan that has been defeated, for now, by the tiny butterfly.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Wish I could afford some land and then grow natural woodland on it. Unfortunately I am not allowed to live in a cabin in the woods and need to spend all my money on a house instead.

    For the cost of my house I could get a pretty big area of land too.