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The location of the 'living library' is along 3km (1.9 miles) of newly restored River Culm floodplain, which is the favoured ...

Efforts are being stepped up to save Britain’s rarest and most threatened native species of tree. The National Trust is creating a “living library” gene bank of trees in east Devon to help protect the ...

A living gene bank of the rarest native tree in Britain, the black poplar, is being created in an urgent effort to create a breeding population. The National Trust at Killerton in Devon is ...

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Efforts are being stepped up to save Britain’s rarest and most threatened native species of tree. The National Trust is creating a “living library” gene bank of trees in east Devon to help ...

A pioneering effort to rescue Britain’s rarest native tree has taken root in Devon, as conservationists create a ‘living library’ of black poplar trees at Killerton. The project, spearheaded by the ...