Efforts to improve habitat have led to a surge in sightings of a rare beetle at a conservation site. Secret planting operations in Wales have increased the population of a critically endangered Welsh shrub and a once-common plant. Conservation efforts have helped boost the number of Welsh Cotoneaster from six to around 110.
At a secret location in the Welsh countryside, naturalists have planted 30 young specimens of a once-common plant that has been collected - and nibbled - almost to extinction. https://t.co/JOsfIvTE16
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Welsh Cotoneaster only grows on wild and windy cliffs in North Wales. By the 1960s, overcollection by 19th-century enthusiasts and grazing had reduced the number to six. Decades of painstaking conservation efforts have boosted that number to around 110 https://t.co/uk4zxXhS1m https://t.co/IV6xgWNI7Q
Secret planting operation boosts critically endangered Welsh shrub https://t.co/21kkH3vQ0P https://t.co/DUA1S8c5Nh
At a secret location in the Welsh countryside, naturalists have planted 30 young specimens of a once-common plant that has been collected - and nibbled - almost to extinction https://t.co/uk4zxXhS1m https://t.co/Vcn70LYzil
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Sightings of a rare species of beetle have soared at a conservation site after efforts were made to improve their habitat. https://t.co/HZ0Q6W0Q2c
Rare beetle sightings soar at conservation site https://t.co/7FFgm3clsd