Crowned by saw tooth peaks, mantled in forest cloaks of green oak, chestnut and pine, and shot through with rushing rivers and tumbling cascades, Corsica is one of the most dramatic, diverse and downright gorgeous islands in the Mediterranean.

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Over the next 25 years, Braka, along with two partners, purchased fields as they came up for sale and slowly restored the parkland to its original state, planting more than half a million trees of mixed broadleaf varieties oak, ash, chestnut and blackthorn.

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Campaign group No Oulton Turbine said 342 mature trees, including oak, ash, sweet chestnut, rowan and Corsican pines, covering three-quarters of an acre, had been felled.

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