Conservationists are calling for people to use cuttings from one of UK's rarest native timber trees to help save the species. Cuttings of the black poplar have been cultivated at Bere Marsh Farm ...

The National Trust said black poplar trees were once as common ... to form a breeding population of male and female trees to ...

but the drainage of land and the demand for faster and straighter growing non-native timber trees has contributed to the gradual decline of the species. Ecologist Fi Hailstone plants black poplar ...