Sir David Attenborough has praised the public after a major win for nature.

Conservationists finalised the biggest land buy in England for years as they secured a 9,500-acre estate for nature.

The Northumberland Wildlife Trust alongside The Wildlife Trusts announced they had purchased Northumberland’s Rothbury Estate - the size of Athens - for £30million.

The proposed project, backed by Sir David who appealed to the public to help fund it, aims to integrate farming friendly to nature and promote wildlife on the estate.

Sir David’s support generated more than £1million of donations in just a week when the fundraising first kicked off.

Thanking the public for their help , he said: “The Wildlife Trusts called for your support and you answered in your thousands.

“The appeal to secure the future of the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland has been successful and now the opportunity to bring the vision of a landscape where nature and people thrive side by side can become a reality.

The Rothbury Estate has been…