Advice for landowners
We work beyond the boundaries of our nature reserves by advising landowners who own and manage important sites for wildlife.
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Local Wildlife Sites
Learn more about our work with these valuable areas of land for wildlife that have no legal protection
Land Advice Service (Northamptonshire)
Our bespoke professional service supports farmers and land managers to practice sustainable and wildlife friendly land use through evidence-based and locally-tailored advice, planning, and implementation.
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
About us
Our work is returning wildlife to our towns and fields and is touching the lives of people, young and old, from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life.
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.