While our nature reserves are the most visible part of our work to protect species and habitats, our work in the planning system, although vital, goes largely unseen, writes Erin McDaid of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Chaining ourselves to diggers or railings has never been our style, but a dogged determination to give nature a voice and to stand up wildlife under threat is part of our organisational DNA. It was the campaign to prevent former quarry lagoons at Attenborough Nature Reserve that led to the establishment of our charity back in the 1960s, and since winning the battle to safeguar…
