Wildlife
During March, like many Cumbrian villages, Rowrah is awash with the bright yellow of DaffodilsRowrah is a rural village and as such it has lots of diverse wildlife, including wild deer, cuckoo, barn owl, fox, red squirrel, smooth newt, hare, and rabbit. Rowrah has a pair of nesting peregrine falcons, in April 2009 they made the national headlines when a pigeon laced with poison was used in an attempt to poison them.
To the south east of Rowrah, along the C2C cycle route prior to Sheriffs Gate there is High Leys, which has been designated a National Nature Reserve. The status of National Nature Reserve was awarded to High Leys due to its meadow status and the traditional hay-making and grazing methods employed during the land's working lifetime.
In 2010 there have been sightings of a large black cat, local myth often refers to such unknown creatures as "Boggles".
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“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are layed waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)