UK's rarest wildlife being 'torched alive' and pushed to brink by wildfires

As wildfires rage across the UK, rare wildlife species, including golden plovers and water voles, are bieng "torched alive" as habitats burn, and experts warn it's Britain's worst year yetNewsAlexandra Snow00:22, 17 Apr 2025Updated 00:23, 17 Apr 2025Britain’s most endangered animals are being “torched alive” in a horrifying wildfire epidemic sweeping across the country, and conservationists are warning the crisis could drive some species straight into extinction.Birds like the hen harrier and the elusive golden plover, as well as the rapidly vanishing water vole, now officially the UK’s fastest-declining mammal, are among the worst affected. The National Trust has described the unfolding disaster as “the worst year ever for these human-caused fires across the country.”‌Ongoing blazes at Abergwesyn common in Powys, Wales, are believed to have destroyed “the last remaining” breeding habitat for golden plovers in the area, a devastating blow to one of Britain’s most beautiful upland birds...