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The Trust for Urban Ecology was
founded in 1976 when veteran ecologist Max Nicholson and a group
of like-minded conservationists set up Britain's first urban ecology
park. The William Curtis Ecological Park was created on the site
of a derelict lorry park near London's Tower Bridge.
Max Nicholson (www.maxnicholson.com)
was also instrumental in setting up the World Wildlife Fund and
became the 2nd Director General of the Nature Conservancy Council.
A visionary for his time he foresaw the need to bring nature conservation
into towns where we live and where people can make a difference.
TRUE has created many new nature
parks since 1976 and now has four key demonstration sites within
south-east London.
The William Curtis Ecological
Park was always intended to be temporary and in 1985 the land
was returned to its owners. By this time, TRUE had already created
two new nature parks which it still runs today. Work on the third,
offered to the Trust as a replacement for the William Curtis Ecological
Park, was just about to begin.
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