12-07-2021, 04:35 PM
An old airbase, Wethersfield airfield, has become an important nature site. Seventy four species of birds, 75,000 trees and shrubs, great crested newts and rare orchids now call the airbase home. The hope is that the land can be re-wilded. Other farm land in the area is going to be re-wilded.
Now a mega prison is proposed for the site. Local councils and environmental groups are organizing to fight this.
This is too important an area to be lost to a construction project.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...mentalists
I am hoping they are successful in fighting this. An area with this much endangered wildlife cannot be used for constructing a prison, that could be built in a number of different areas. (the usefulness of mega prisons is another issue for another discussion)
We need to start giving wildlife the priority when we make choices.
In the Canadian Rockies many times the highway goes around the mountain because the mountain is too big an object to move. We need to see the nests of a tiny endangered birds as objects "too big" to be moved. In reality they are to big to move because the survival of a species depends on those nests and that is a very big thing indeed.
Now a mega prison is proposed for the site. Local councils and environmental groups are organizing to fight this.
This is too important an area to be lost to a construction project.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...mentalists
I am hoping they are successful in fighting this. An area with this much endangered wildlife cannot be used for constructing a prison, that could be built in a number of different areas. (the usefulness of mega prisons is another issue for another discussion)
We need to start giving wildlife the priority when we make choices.
In the Canadian Rockies many times the highway goes around the mountain because the mountain is too big an object to move. We need to see the nests of a tiny endangered birds as objects "too big" to be moved. In reality they are to big to move because the survival of a species depends on those nests and that is a very big thing indeed.