who have won this year ? from one of Britain's greatest thinkers to the
campaigners who created a little piece of heaven in Essex
## Conservation Award: Thameside Nature Park
The act of conservation is often taken rather literally as preserving
something that's already there. But this year's Conservation Award, kicking
off the Observer Ethical Awards, in association with Ecover, goes to a local
wildlife organisation seeking to create something new and ambitious. Essex
Wildlife Trust's plan is to turn an 845-acre landfill site on the north bank
of the Thames into a living landscape for wildlife and people.
It could so easily not have happened. Thurrock doesn't have an abundance of
green space and industrial creep is strongly in evidence ? there is a move
afoot to build a huge container port nearby. So there was an urgent need to
carve out some green land for the communities of Tilbury and Standford-Le-Hope
who have lived for so long next to one of Britain's biggest landfill dumps.
Until December last year, this is where six boroughs of London sent their
rubbish by barge. By ...
Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/society/environment/100414644?client_source=feed&format=rss
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