Celebrating Wild Ingleborough 🏔️

Since our Wild Ingleborough appeal launched in spring 2024, we’ve made huge strides for wildlife and wild spaces around Ingleborough mountain. Together we have:

Used historical records to locate rare species and collect seeds and cuttings to grow on in our upland plant nursery – from globeflowers and purple saxifrage to spiked speedwell and montane willows;

Collected spores from rare ferns to grow in seed trays and plant out onto our bare areas of limestone pavement;

Planting nearly 30,000 montane native tree species;

Restored 300m of dry stone wall, the same length as the Ribblehead Viaduct;

Nurtured several new nature reserves, including the beautifully-flowering slopes of Ashes Shaw;

Shepherded our amazing herd of conservation grazing, making gaps in walls so that they can roam freely across Ingleborough’s slopes;

Hosted two successful Ground Nest festivals, celebrating and raising awareness of our endangered ground-nesting birds;

None of this would have been possible without your help and support, and we hope you enjoy this short film celebrating some of our incredible work so far.

Find out more about our ongoing work at Ingleborough and how you can support us: www.ywt.org.uk/wild-ingleborough