Recently there’s been reports around the District of privately owned land that had become known as a site rich in nature has suddenly been stripped of vegetation and worse.

In this podcast Mark Park-Crowne, spokesperson for the Save Napsbury Wildlife Sanctuary Group talks about what's happened on the site near him, and Matt Dodds, planning and Biodiversity manager for the Herts and Middx Wildlife Trusts gives his view on why so many wildlife sites are being destroyed just now, advice that might help save a site near you and how additional protection for such sites might be just around the corner.