The inaugural Vitacress Conservation Trust Annual Environment Lecture is set to take place on Tuesday, March 27.

The Vitacress Conservation Trust was created in order to study, conserve and protect the wildlife and habitat areas associated with watercress and salad crop farming.

The lecture, which is to be hosted by and held at the University of Southampton, is the first in what the Vitacress Trust hopes will become a series of similar events to support its work.

Helen Phillips, chief executive of Natural England, will deliver this year’s first lecture, entitled Chalk Rivers: A World-Class Environment.

Launched in 2006, Natural England brings together English Nature, the environmental activities of the Rural Development Service and the Countryside Agency’s Landscape, Access and Recreation Division.

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