Wild Ingleborough is a partnership between WWF, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Natural England, United Bank of Carbon, Leeds University and The Woodland Trust to create a vision of a wilder Ingleborough mountain in the Yorkshire Dales.
Set in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales a partnership project is working to recover nature and a wilder landscape from the River Ribble to the peak of Ingleborough mountain. The partnership consists of charities, organisations and local communities are working together to restore this iconic landscape.
For many, the land around Ingleborough feels open, vast and beautiful with one of the biggest limestone pavements in the UK the land is indicative of what a vast majority of the public perceive as wild. The reality is that this land is not wild. It should be a patchwork of woods, moors, heathlands and blanket bog – but due to intensive farming and “improvement” of grasslands for sheep grazing its lush diversity of plant and wildlife has been lost.
