By Michael Elioff Photo via Pixabay London has 21 Environmentally Significant Areas. The areas exist on both private and public land. Around half of these areas are managed by the Upper Thames Conservation Authority. Brandon Williamson is a land management technician for the conservation and he provided some insight on ESA’s. Designation In order to be designated as an ESA, the City of London has what Williamson describes as an exhaustive list of criteria that must be met.
“Some of those things would be, sensitive ecological features like bogs, or open grassland prairie Habitat, habitat for species at risk, that type of thing”