England’s highest nature reserve is being established in the Lake District, with trees planted on Skiddaw for the first time in centuries.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust bought the over 3,000-acre in 2024, which they believe for thousands of years had 620 acres of 'Atlantic Rainforest', a mixture of native woodland and carbon-trapping peat-rich soils.

For hundreds of years, however, there has hardly been a single tree to be seen, as is the case for many upland landscapes.