heathland
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heathlands
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It said the initiative would focus on landscapes across Cornwall's coastal grasslands, dunes and heathland as well as grazing marshes and sea walls in Kent and the upland fringe landscape of the North Pennines.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Other heathland reserves, including those at Ideford Common and Teigngrace Meadow, would become home to both species, he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Pond Farm lays on lowland heathland, a rare habitat found on acidic and nutrient-poor soils.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Firefighters had "allowed parts of the heathland to burn because the area is very difficult to access," Yernaux said.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
"In heathlands like this one, native mosses have gone locally extinct or reduced significantly in their populations," he says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Typically contaminants such as lead and arsenic are more concentrated in the heathlands further up the mountains.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024
It comprises diverse natural habitats, like riparian forests, standing- and flowing waters, open and semi-open inland dunes, and heathlands, and is surrounded by diverse landscapes of forests, rivers, and wetlands.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024
"The loss of grasslands, heathlands and other habitats would be really shocking for someone brought up in the 1950s," he suggests.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023
Wilder scenery now, dark, frowning mountains, lonely glens, heathlands, highlands, cañons, and tarns, then a long and fertile flat, every sod of which marks a Scottish warrior’s grave.
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables
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