Article: Environmental protection is taking off at airport; Red squirrels, newts and pretty wildflowers. Sounds like a nature reserve, but all these things can be found at Newcastle International Airport, as Amy Hunt found out.(News)

MILLIONS of passengers and hundreds of planes pass through Newcastle International Airport every year. But as well as Geordie holidaymakers and aeroplane crew the 184-hectare airport site has a number of other regular visitors. Great crested newt, bats and red squirrels are among the species found at the site near Ponteland in Northumberland.

And bosses at the airport are working to protect and improve the site to attract more wildlife. The airport has a well-established landscape and wildlife strategy aiming to conserve and enhance the ...

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