Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
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Bad news for Kent's Nightingales (1 Viewer)
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Paul - Herts
Paul Herts
It's planning for the future - more people in an over-populated country on an over-populated world. It made very grim reading particularly, as Dave has commented, the belief that they can just provide an alternative site that will suit the birds.
Unfortunately, the bulk of the human race can only view the short-term, i.e. their own lifetime. There are many people on this planet whose daily life follows a path of struggle and deprivation, but the UK is NOT one of these countries and our problems are of our own, deliberate making.
Sorry, rant over - it just scares me that the human race either can't see what it does or doesn't care. Those with power and wealth generally appear to fall into the latter category :-C
Unfortunately, the bulk of the human race can only view the short-term, i.e. their own lifetime. There are many people on this planet whose daily life follows a path of struggle and deprivation, but the UK is NOT one of these countries and our problems are of our own, deliberate making.
Sorry, rant over - it just scares me that the human race either can't see what it does or doesn't care. Those with power and wealth generally appear to fall into the latter category :-C
Farnboro John
Well-known member
The problem here is that politicians see nothing beyond the end of their tenure (generally five years or less in the UK) except the need to be re-elected by other humans: common sense and science promptly fly out of the window....
Pretty much all the problems could be solved by sensible population control aimed at reducing the human footprint on the planet - good luck with that while the idiots continue to bleat that breeding is a right, not a resource-based privilege.
John
LowellMills
Is this your Sanderling?
These documents below give you a lot of what you need to see on this case (and yes, they are in chronological order, and yes, the successful SSSI notification document is the most recent). In summary, the BTO and RSPB have been party to this discussion, have offered reasonable advice on the site since at least 2012; Medway Council, hellbent on getting this development through, have questioned the science behind the Nightingale numbers and the rarity of the species throughout; the site has been notified as SSSI, and the Council have approved the development anyway.
I am emailing whoever the Environment Minister is this week, and Local Councils Minister, calling upon them to get Medway Council to turn this around. IT'S A SSSI.
http://www.medway.gov.uk/pdf/summary notes of workshop 9 nov 2012.pdf
http://www.medway.gov.uk/pdf/EBL Lodge Hill report final draft 13 nov 12.pdf
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/nebpu3901_tcm6-36922.pdf
I am emailing whoever the Environment Minister is this week, and Local Councils Minister, calling upon them to get Medway Council to turn this around. IT'S A SSSI.
http://www.medway.gov.uk/pdf/summary notes of workshop 9 nov 2012.pdf
http://www.medway.gov.uk/pdf/EBL Lodge Hill report final draft 13 nov 12.pdf
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/nebpu3901_tcm6-36922.pdf
LowellMills
Is this your Sanderling?
Also, why is this Biodiversity Offsetting technique being used, given a) that DEFRA announced no further decision on its effectiveness until the pilot study is analysed, and b) that Kent falls into none of the 6 pilot zones outlined in 2012?!
