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HomeNewsThousands of children learn about life on the region’s moorlands Thousands of children learn about life on the region’s moorlands July 7, 2024 Joe Willis News 0 Lets Learn Moor event at Lower Barden Reservoir near Skipton. 2/7/2024. Photograph: Stuart Boulton/BASC.

More than 2,500 children from across the north of England are experiencing the feel of spongey sphagnum mosses under their feet and seeing carnivorous insect-eating sundew plants, as the UK’s largest uplands classroom returns this week.

They are also meeting hardy Swaledale sheep, seeing soaring birds of prey and hearing the chattering of red grouse and the call of the iconic curlew as part of this year’s Let’s Learn Moor events which are being held at locations across the north of England this week. [between 1-5 July 2024.]

Let’s Learn Moor is the UK’s largest annual upland education event, providing an opportunity for children to meet the people and organisations that help to protect our stunning moorland landscapes and species.