The grant to buy the woodland came from Cydcoed - a Forestry Commission Wales community woodland project, which is funded by the European Union and Welsh Assembly Government.

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The Lake District Osprey Project is managed by a partnership of the Forestry Commission, Lake District National Park Authority and the RSPB.

BBC: Lake District ospreys: new pair at Bassenthwaite

Even conservationists admit that the project is less awful than a former plan to turn the area into a commercial forestry plantation.

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