I met with two young women, Charlotte Johl and Ellie Woollerson, leading members of The Leeds University Union Conservation Volunteers (LUUCV), a campus society devoted to lending numbers of students to local conservation projects at the University of Leeds. They work in conjunction with a local conservation volunteer group called the Woodhouse Ridge Action Group (WRAG), made up of volunteers who live and work in the area. In this way, students and like-minded locals work together on WRAG-hosted action days on local nature reserves.

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