Ongoing work includes a landscape scale restoration project designed to sustainably manage and restore ecosystems including arable and livestock farmland, woodlands and waterways, that will make a lasting contribution to national efforts to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis.

The Red Kite was reintroduced as part of these efforts in the early 2000s and rare and native breed livestock are used extensively across the estate to create habitat and manage the landscape.

Much progress has been made to decarbonise and make Harewood more sustainable. As well as switching most machinery and equipment to electric, renewable energy schemes include solar and biomass plants.

Biomass plants are powered by wood chip taken from selective thinning and management of the Estate’s woodlands, which is needed to protect the many ancient and veteran trees and deliver further benefits to wildlife.

The plants provide heat to all the Estate’s commercial office spaces, residential properties and holiday cottages. It even heats Harewood House and the Courtyard, saving more than 500 tonnes of CO2 per year.