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Editor’s Wish List: Autumn 2010

Walk editor Dominic Bates on three things he’s looking forward to this season…

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Help put London on the map

The Ramblers warns that London’s Historic network of footpaths – including parts of the Thames Path National Trail – are at risk…

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Rare butterfly numbers on the rise

Record numbers of the rare and exotic Swallowtail Butterfly have been sighted in the Broads this summer – the first increase in nearly 100 years…

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Beaver Trial babies!

The campaign to re-introduce beavers into the wild in Scotland took a huge leap forward recently, when the first beaver kits were spotted at the site…

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A forest saved

The Woodland Trust has succeeded in raising enough funds to buy most of Cwm Mynach, a remote and beautiful valley in the Snowdonia National Park. The charity has now completed the purchase of nearly 1000 acres, with the aim of gradually re-establishing native woodland and other valuable wildlife habitats…

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Events

The Chiltern Way walking festival
 

The Chiltern Way walking festival

May-September

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Stroud Walking Festival

3-19 September 2010

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Bedfordshire walking festival

4-12 September 2010

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Scottish Borders walking festival

4-12 September 2010

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Pendle walking festival

4-12 September 2010

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Dead End campaign launched

paths

A new Ramblers’ campaign names and shames England and Wales’ worst councils for footpath maintenance, to highlight the most serious crisis to face the network in decades. Ramblers campaigns officer Rachel Alcock warns of the threats from near-universal cuts to councils’ rights-of-way budgets and the introduction of prioritisation schemes, which will see many footpaths ignored entirely. “Scrimping on this essential community service will result in disrepair, blockages and impassable obstructions,” Rachel says. “Walking is for everyone. That’s why we’re calling on local residents to lobby their councils urgently.”

A map of footpath black spots shows that the worst councils included Worcestershire, North Yorkshire, Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire, which plans to cut its on-the-ground work by a third.
To view the map and read more about the Dead End campaign, visit www.ramblers.org.uk/Campaigns+Policy/deadend

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