Originally published November 1, 2008 Almscliff Crag in North Yorkshire, England, is an outcrop or tor of gritstone, visible for many miles around. It is a site of special scientific interest – a protected site under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 and a venue for climbers who boulder on it and walkers who want to … Read more
Hunted to Near Extinction Red kites are one of the United Kingdom success stories of the past twenty years, but they were hunted almost to extinction in the nineteenth century, with just a few birds left in the wild in Wales. They were reintroduced into the UK 1989 at the initiative of the Joint Nature … Read more
Almscliff Crag in North Yorkshire, England, is an outcrop or tor of gritstone, visible for many miles around. It is a site of special scientific interest – a protected site under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 and a venue for climbers who boulder on it and walkers who want to look around the … Read more