Telegraph: The proposal would see up to 116 square miles (30,000 hectares) of English woodland cleared and turned into open heathland. Conservationists say the move would help to boost numbers of rare birds, such as nightjars, woodlarks and dunlins; reptiles like the sand lizard; insects, including solitary bees and the tiger beetle, and rare plants like the lesser twayblade. However, it would cost taxpayers £61 million to carry out and critics say it would set back the fight against …