Lawyers for Nature
 Lawyers for Nature      | |
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| Founder | • Brontie Ansell • Paul Powlesland |
Lawyers for Nature (LFN) is a Community Interest Company whose origins lie in the successful legal assistance given by co-founder, barrister Paul Powlesland, to a grassroots campaign to save thousands of street trees from being felled in Sheffield. LFN aims to democratise access to legal support for those seeking to defend the natural world.
Own words
LFN’s members are a mix of law students, professionals and volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are united by our drive to create a more inclusive legal system, so that community action groups and environmental defenders can access the support they need to protect nature and their local environment. We do this through a mixture of education and awareness, while raising funds for specific local projects.[1]
Saving oaks
On 22 December 2021, LFN tweeted:
A year on, we review the @SaveOaks #Campaign in @wildlondon_SHW, managed by @WildLondon in which we advised the #activist intervention, blocked an #injunction and won a #TPO to #defend a pair of veteran #oaks. Please read @paulpowlesland's #casestudy here.[2]
A document sourced from Lawyers for Nature
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Peaceful Eco-activism & Lawyers for Nature are Triumphant | Article | Save Cox's Walk Footbridge Oaks | 22 December 2021 | Paul Powlesland | "We went from trees potentially being unnecessarily felled to allow work to take place, to those trees being not only saved, but protected into the future. That could only be achieved by a combination of peaceful activism and the assistance of Lawyers for Nature. And now, those trees will hopefully far outlive us all, which is a very satisfying outcome indeed." |
