Brownfield sites under threat
Brownfield sites can provide crucial habitats for wildlife populations, including many rare and protected bugs. Buglife is continually campaigning on behalf of valuable sites threatened with development, to ensure that the best wildlife sites are protected.
The Thames Gateway - 'England's rainforest' in the firing line
The Thames Gateway is a key area for Buglife's work, as it includes large expanses of brownfield land coupled with nationally important populations of species such as the Brown-banded carder bee. However, the area has been identified as Europe’s largest regeneration area and will be subject to major house-building over the next 10-20 years. Brownfield sites are under severe threat from this development and their wildlife is in the firing line. Although the Government has acknowledged the environmental importance of the Thames Gateway, many key sites continue to be lost. To find out more about Buglife's work in the area click here.
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| Under threat: the flower-rich grasslands of West Thurrock Marshes, earmarked for a warehouse © Greg Hitchcock |
West Thurrock Marshes This site in South Essex is, quite simply, one of the UK's best sites for rare bugs and other wildlife. Yet despite this it may be disappearing under concrete in 2007. To find out more about Buglife's continuing fight to save the site - and how to get involved - click here.
