Houses or wildlife haven? Young campaigners' plea to protect our beautiful fields
Young campaigners for nature are highlighting the wildlife that finds a home in the Hawber Cote/Brown Bank fields which are currently under threat of development. Displaying five iconic birds, among many which are seen regularly here -- curlew, owl, song thrush, lapwing and blackbird -- the children all take an active role in the fight to save this stretch of popular countryside for future generations.
Young campaigners for nature are highlighting the wildlife that finds a home in the Hawber Cote/Brown Bank fields which are currently under threat of development. Displaying five iconic birds, among many which are seen regularly here -- curlew, owl, song thrush, lapwing and blackbird -- the children all take an active role in the fight to save this stretch of popular countryside for future generations.
"It is vital that we protect our planet and that means keeping our beautiful fields," says 11-year-old Isla Barton, who has written to Bradford council, registering her objection to a plan by Persimmon Homes to build a large housing estate on farmland between Brown Bank Lane and Hawber Cote Lane. Isla has also written to international campaigner Greta Thunberg.
