MANY North Yorkshire young people have received an award after their volunteering work.

A total of 37 people from the Yorkshire Dales and surrounding areas have received a John Muir Award after volunteering as "Dales Young Rangers."

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Each volunteer spent between four and 20 days in wild places in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, often carrying out practical conservation tasks such as wildlife surveys or collecting used plastic tree guards.

The programme was started by The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority in the Craven part of the national park in 2013.

To achieve a John Muir Award, each participated must the 'Four Challenges' to discover, explore conserve and share wild places.

Benji Grundy, one of those to receive an award, said: "Receiving the John Muir Award through Young Rangers means a lot to me.

"Being able to discover, explore, conserve and share these natural landscapes in the Yorkshire Dales is something that I have really loved.

"To achieve the award I took part in many Young Ranger days that covered the first three challenges and wrote a couple of blog posts on my days for the share challenge."

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Graham Watson, John Muir Award Cumbria Manager, said: "It’s only by getting out and being active in connecting with our local wild places that we come to value and care for them.

"These Young Rangers have put that into action with great commitment; John Muir would be proud of them and I congratulate them on achieving their John Muir Awards”.

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