Dividing Line
Dividing Line
Dividing Line



Date:       9 July 2008

Time:      Arrive 9:30 for a 10:00 start, finish no later than 4:30

Venue:    Coin Street Centre, 108 Stamford Street, South Bank, London
                  SE1 9NH (www.coinstreet.org)



This event will:
  • Discuss major drivers and influences in UK nature conservation policy
  • Consider key opportunities and new directions for conservation
  • Hear from practitioners at the leading edge, on topics including
    • Key issues in terrestrial and marine nature conservation
    • Nature and well-being
    • Working with natural processes
  • Give participants quality discussion time instructured workshops

BANC (The British Association of Nature Conservationists) has a 30-year reputation for being on the cutting edge. In Ecos, our publication, we provide a place for people to explore new ideas and fresh thinking in nature conservation. We now want to get this discussion off the page and into live debate and dialogue.

Please join us on 9 July to
  • Be inspired and challenged
  • Hear about new thinking and new ideas in nature conservation
  • Take part - question or critique current practice and explore or dream up fresh ideas.


Speakers will inspire, challenge, provoke, give a fresh twist to old ideas or introduce some new, 'wild ideas'
  • Stephanie Hilborne - Chief Executive, The Wildlife Trusts - Conservation in a rapidly changing context

  • Mike Townsend OBE - Senior Advisor, The Woodland Trust - Goods and services: will they serve nature well?

  • Stephen Moss - BBC Producer, Natural History Unit - Nature deficit disorder

  • James Robertson - Writer and editor of Natur Cymru - Keep the faith ... or wake up and smell the coffee?

  • David Collins - Independent advisor on coastal change management - Adapting to change: a species in trouble

  • Lisa Chilton - Marine Development Manager, The Wildlife Trusts - Playing catch-up

  • Philip Bubb - Ecologist trained in holistic management - Seeing the whole picture

  • Diana Pound - Chair of BANC - Jigsaws and jenga: getting better at winning


For more information and to download the booking form, please click here.



This page was last updated on:17 June 2008