David Shreeve

David Arthur Shreeve MBE is the Executive Director of the Conservation Foundation and is the Environmental Adviser to the Archbishops’ Council.

The first to be imported in October 1979 were planted by the then US Ambassador Kingman Brewster at the Pitney Bowes European HQ at Harlow.

Shreeve met David Bellamy when he planted Sapporo Autumn Gold elms at Marwell Zoo.

They went on to found The Conservation Foundation at the Institute of Directors on 5 March 1982 at an event covered live by BBC TV’s Pebble Mill at One and attended by the then Minister for the Environment Michael Heseltine and representatives of environmental organisations, industry and commerce and the media.

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