Revival project for endangered native trees in North Yorkshire (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A project to help save one of the UK's rarest native trees has begun in North Yorkshire.

As part of the Forgotten Flora project, the Howardian Hills Partnership and North York Moors National Park want to increase the population of black poplar trees which has dwindled to around 7,000 trees in the UK and Ireland.

"Of the 7,000 or so trees left, only about 600 are female and the rest male. This severely limits natural seed reproduction," said project leader Ambrose Greenfield.

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