A group in Bucks are fighting to save a vital wildlife corridor for many species from being destroyed by HS2 construction in Great Missenden.
The Save Leather Lane Oaks movement have already raised over £18,000 for the cause, but having lost 12 of the 99 trees on the South of leather lane, the group want to save the rest to prevent fragmentation of the vital corridor and need to raise another £20,000 to pay their experts, including a Consultant Civil Engineer.
HS2 have claimed they will replace the trees and plant some at another location but this amounts to no more than off setting.
Designs presented by the Campaign for an overbridge to the North would avoid further damage altogether and protect the rich biodiversity that is dependent on the rich ecosystem created by the veteran oak trees.
Ken, a member of the group has explained the problems with that:
"If you want trees to be replaced they take careful management, water them, nature them and look after them, otherwise you'll never replace the big majestic trees we have today.
It's complex, it's time consuming and it costs an awful lot of money to be able to reproduce what they intend to do, which is take those trees down in leather lane."
I will send you soundbites from myself (Lawyers for Nature) as well as Campaigner Mark Keir. Carol Anne also had soundbites from some local children and was in the process of getting a soundbite from an elderly resident whose family ran the farm next to Leather Lane.
The GoFundMe page, has raised funds for crucial wildlife surveys which were presented to HS2 along with research, monitoring and thermal imagining cameras to the many bats that call Leather Lane oaks their home, and to provide funds for any legal costs that may happen. There is now an urgent need to raise funds to pay for their Consultant engineer to meet with HS2’s sub contractor EKFB and present designs for discussion.
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