Leather Lane Oaks are going live!
Tune into our live stream on our Facebook page @SaveLeatherLaneOaks at 7.30pm Tuesday 23 August where we will be discussing everything bats including the Guardian article featuring our resident campaigner Carol-Anne and Bucks girl Lindsey Spinks from Lawyers for Nature!!
If you have not seen the article already you can find it HERE: https://tinyurl.com/wyk5n3zu
Please also head to our Instagram: @ilonatheoak or Facebook: @SaveLeatherLaneOakswhere we will be posting a Q&A box on our story for you to ask any questions you might have regarding our discussion topic.
There will also be a poll for you to vote on what you want us to discuss in our next live stream.
Alternatively, please email any questions you might have to us at: saveleatherlaneoaks@gmail.com.
The campaign to Save Leather Lane from HS2 continues to go from strength to strength
Bucks resident Carol Anne has shown that anyone can stand up and give a voice to trees and wildlife and, in her case, bats!
After winning the well-respected Guardian Angel award from the Guardian Newspaper back in July, Carol-Anne has gone on to speak with local press and radio stations about her journey setting up the Campaign to Save Leather Lane to protect the trees and wildlife that depend on this vital line of veteran oaks.
In her interview with Vee from Chiltern Voice Radio on Friday 5 August, Carol-Anne made clear the reasons why the veteran oak trees and corridor must remain- we are in a time of climate crisis and huge biodiversity loss – every single veteran oak tree can support 2,300 different wildlife species and provides a vital role in capturing carbon and retaining water. Carol-Anne set out how the Campaign came up with an engineering solution that would not only protect the irreplaceable ecology of the Lane but also allows HS2 to stick to their own Environmental Policy.
Listen out for future coverage of the Campaign on Chiltern Voice Radio. As Vee said “this is not about going head to head but rather getting heads together to look intelligently and progress in a way that conserves ecology.”
The Campaign also saw coverage on Bucks Live: see the article HERE: https://tinyurl.com/mswk99ya
A great August bat walk
Every month, local residents old and young have joined the Campaign’s bat walk to see the bats for themselves. We can come together to protect our nature and endangered wildlife for our children and future generations. See our first TikTok video below: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNtBvRS6/
Please follow our TikTok account @slloaks and like and share our videos as much as you can :)
We are only able to pay for our engineer and lawyers thanks to the generous donations of those supporting us. Please donate to help us win this home straight here! https://tinyurl.com/25uu7zku
See our Campaign video here: https://tinyurl.com/5xjaxcs5
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How you can help:
Please continue to share our local petition with your friends and family: https://tinyurl.com/2p9fa7pk For friends, family and colleagues that are not local to Leather Lane, you can email them our Change.Org petition to sign: https://tinyurl.com/4m5rm7jd We have almost 43,000 signatures and it would be amazing to get this figure to 50,000.
You can also help by following us on our social media channels below, sharing our Facebook posts, retweeting our Tweets and reposting our stories on Instagram.
Facebook: @Saveleatherlaneoaks
Twitter: @OaksSave
Instagram: @ilonatheoak
Tiktok: @slloaks
If you can assist in any way, please let us know by replying to this email. Any help will be most gratefully received, no matter how small.