A leading UK conservation charity is in a crowdfunding race against time in an ambitious bid to buy a swathe of rolling moorlands and woodlands, in the largest land sale in England in three decades.
The Wildlife Trusts organisation needs to raise £30 million ($40 million) to acquire the whole 3,800-hectares Rothbury Estate in northern Northumberland.
It has launched a major donations campaign and so far collected £20.6 million in just under tw…