Leila Taheri makes sure a London nature reserve is habitable for wildlife and safe for visitors. Now it’s her turn to be looked after
Leila Taheri at Welsh Harp wetlands.eila Taheri used to go to the Welsh Harp wetlands in north-west London when she was a schoolgirl. “At the time,” she says, “it was a bit of a dump, and dangerous.” She’d occasionally play rounders there, but it wasn’t somewhere you wanted to linger. During the first lockdown in 2020, she rediscovered it. “Before then,” says Taheri, who is 37 and works in advertising, “it was just a place I lived near and visited periodically.
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