David Bangs is a field naturalist, social historian, public artist, author and conservationist.

He has written extensively on the countryside management, both historically and present day in the English county of Sussex.

[19][20][21] The campaign was ultimately successful and Center Parcs pulled out of the project citing biodiversity concerns.

[29] His first two works concern themselves with fauna, flora and land ownership of the Sussex Downland around the city of Brighton, England, and the threats posed to them by farms, housing developments and other socioeconomic forces.

[31][32][33][34][35] The work is of importance as reviewer Ted Benton notes as it "expresses a deeply engaged and embodied presence in the environment" from "someone who over many years has walked the footpaths, occasionally trespassed, counted the wildflowers and listened to the birds".

He hosted the BBC2 programme This Land: Coppers and Bangs, which was recommended in The Times "Today's Viewing Choice"[37] and The Independent's "Pick of the Day".

Bangs feels a strong attachment to the county of Sussex and his family moved back to Hove in 1958, when he was seven.