Cattle Grazing Increases Biodiversity in UK Landscape Restoration Project

Research by the University of Leeds showed that when cattle grazed a nature reserve in the United Kingdom as part of landscape restoration efforts, plant diversity increased by more than 40% and there was a five-fold increase in the number of butterflies. Two separate studies used monitoring data collected at the Wild Ingleborough project site over the course of 18 years after management changed from grazing sheep to grazing cattle.. Wildflower species were among the plant increases, and the butterfly increases included rare species.