Limestone pavement and Ingleborough, Southerscales - (C) David Berry
Wild Ingleborough
Working together to deliver nature’s recovery across this iconic and much-loved mountain in the Western Dales
Landscape-scale collaboration
From the banks of the River Ribble to high up on Ingleborough’s fells, Wild Ingleborough brings together seven organisations – Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Natural England, WWF, University of Leeds, United Bank of Carbon, Woodland Trust and Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust – to reconnect wildlife-rich fragments across 1,200 hectares and establish Ingleborough as one of England’s nature hotspots.
(C) Wild Ingleborough team
An ambitious landscape-scale nature recovery programme
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Ingleborough and its surrounding foothills are the last stronghold for rare and threatened species that are found nowhere else in the world.
Previously, Ingleborough’s animals and plants were confined to isolated pockets making them extremely vulnerable,
We are working to create bigger, better and more connected areas of habitat that give these species the space they need to flourish.
How Ingleborough's limestone pavements could look. (C) Greg Armfield (WWF-UK)
A mosaic of different habitats
Through a combination of conservation grazing, traditional land management, and facilitating natural regeneration, we are restoring and creating habitats to support a diversity of species.
Wild Ingleborough covers 1,500 hectares of Natural England and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust land, which we are managing in partnership so that nature can roam freely and flourish once again.
Working with the community
Local people are at the heart of Wild Ingleborough and we welcome your involvement. There are all sorts of ways you can make a difference for Ingleborough and its wildlife.
Ashes Pasture - (C) Wild Ingleborough team
Visit Ingleborough
Rugged, majestic, beautiful - discover this wild landscape for yourself.