Local Wildlife Sites
Learn more about our work with these valuable areas of land for wildlife that have no legal protection
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What are Local Wildlife Sites?
Protecting these important and vulnerable sites
Local Wildlife Sites - help needed!
Fundamentally important Local Wildlife Sites need protecting from future development - help stop government proposals to remove their protection
Local Wildlife Sites - some protection reinstated
Thanks to you, the Government has published a revised version of its National Planning Policy Framework which now includes some reinstated protection for Local Wildlife Sites
New County Wildlife Sites for Bedfordshire
Three new County Wildlife Sites have been designated at Blow's Downs in areas of superb land restoration in a mitigation scheme for the Luton Dunstable Busway
Local Wildlife magazine
Local Wildlife is an award winning seasonal magazine for members of the Wildlife Trust BCN.
Luton Chalk Sites
As well as our own nature reserves we have also been helping improve other sites for wildlife.
Top Sites
Our recommended nature reserves
Brownfield vs. Greenfield Sites
People often suggest that development should be built on ‘brownfield sites’ and not encroach on ‘greenfield sites’. But it’s more complicated than it seems.
Why I love my local Wildlife Trust
Josh Hellon (Monitoring & Research Manager) on what the Wildlife Trust BCN means to him
Dogs off leads harming protected wildlife sites, say conservationists
Dogs off leads at protected nature reserves are disturbing nests, scaring away wintering birds and hampering the efforts of conservationists.
Wildlife
Explore the wildlife we have in our three counties