High Speed 2
Wildlife sites are threatened along the proposed high speed rail route between London and Birmingham
Stop HS2 - add your name to the e-petition
The proposed high speed rail route between London and the West Midlands will affect 160 wildlife sites across seven different Wildlife Trust areas.
In Hertfordshire and Middlesex, the route will cross the Mid-Colne Valley SSSI on a viaduct bisecting Broadwater Lake Nature Reserve. The 80 hectare site is renowned internationally for the diversity of breeding wetland birds and the numbers of wintering waterbirds such as gadwall, shoveler and great crested grebe, and summer moult gatherings of tufted duck.
What's happening about it?
The Right Lines Charter (published 8 April 2011) has been agreed between an alliance of powerful organisations including the Wildlife Trusts, to hold the government to account on HS2. The alliance believes government proposals currently fall far short of the charter. The Wildlife Trusts are continuing to put pressure on the government.
Public consultation
The public consultation has now closed (Friday 29 July). We will continue to put pressure on government throughout the autumn - you can help us by writing to your MP and signing the Stop HS2 e-petition.
What you can do
Read more here
Berks Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust
Beds, Cambs, Northants and Peterborough Wildlife Trust
The Wildlife Trusts
Chilterns AONB
HS2 Action Alliance
Stop HS2 action group
