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Feb 2022
A Nidderdale landowner has been awarded a grant to set up a curlew conservation project.
Clive White, who has farmed in Darley for 35 years, received the grant from the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme run by Nidderdale AONB.
The programme is funded by the government’s Agricultural Transition Plan.
It supports schemes that promote nature recovery, mitigate the impacts of climate change, provide better access or engagement with the land, or increase the business resilience of nature friendly farms.
The Darley Beck Curlew Project will aim to reduce curlew egg and chick losses to predators and farming techniques.
Curlews have been listed as 'near threatened' on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species since 2008.
Participants aim to have the conservation project up and running in time for this year's breeding season.
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