Aldabra, a tiny atoll in the Indian Ocean, is a treasure house of rare plants and animals where in 1966 defence chiefs planned to put down an RAF staging post. Scientists campaigned with opponents of the underlying strategy to preserve it. Could they hope to succeed?
Introduced by John Tidmarsh
with The Rt Hon Denis Healey, MBE, MP, Tam Dalyell, MP, Arthur Davidson, MP, Philip Goodhart, MP, David Steel, MP, Charles Douglas-Home