Campaigners raise £500k to buy the 20-acre site in Hertfordshire, home to water voles and skylarks.
A conservation charity says it has purchased a 20-acre nature reserve that supports "some of our most iconic yet threatened wildlife".
It said by purchasing the site, the trust prevented the land from "going onto the open market" and putting the wildlife "at risk".report said UK wildlife continued to decline and its study of more than 10,000 species showed nearly one in six were at threat of extinction.It is home to a variety of habitats such as lowland meadows, wet woodland, marsh and the River Mimran chalk stream.
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