This natural history feature would showcase the extraordinary biodiversity of Hampstead Heath, drawing on the City of London Corporation's wildlife inventory. The article would take readers on a virtual tour of the Heath's habitats—acid grassland, heathland, woodland, hedgerows, wildflower meadows, streams, and more than 30 lakes and ponds—explaining why this concentration of habitats in an urban setting is "quite special and important to London and to the UK as a whole". It would catalogue the astonishing statistics: 650 types of wildflower, 180 species of bird including kingfishers and woodpeckers, 9 species of bat, 6 species of reptile and amphibian, 25 butterfly species, 400 moth species, 650 beetle species, 200 spider species, 400 "veteran trees" providing habitats for birds, bugs and fungi, and 800 types of fungi. The piece would position this biodiversity as the underlying rationale for every planning decision affecting the Heath and its setting.