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11-19-2016, 03:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2016, 03:20 AM by Tobi.)
UK planning laws have to consider other species, and usually a survey is done before planning permission is granted. This so far, applies to protected species only. But there has been many a bat who has had a property developer pulling his hair out!
However, as sometimes can happen, skullduggery goes on. Peoples' palms are greased, and social status ('funny' handshakes??) relatives or buddies on the parish council, local investors, especially farmers who own huge tracts of land....etc can work wonders in the developers' favour.
Illegal re-location and occasionally -worse -of certain animals can also happen, done secretly of course before the survey.
Some skullduggery goes on in my area.
But the most unexpected and tinest creatures can be protected species, so anyone dishonest really has to do their homework, and get out into the wild which is asking a lot of these money-men.
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In the USA now there are legal rights services for animals that give a voice to these animals. They should not be wiped out of their habitat, they were there first!
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We go too far when we destroy a species and its habitat. I think even the worst person somehow knows this even if they don't admit it.
We need to consider the animals who live in an area before we do something to the area. I hope this idea spreads from country to country.
Imagine a day when the rights of all animals are respected. I think it is in sight. We could do it.
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Of course they should, but it rarely happens. Need only look at Australia's history on that.
Governments lying about having done "thorough surveys" on precious habitat they want to destroy for mining, only for the public to find out they never did any surveys at all.
I had never seen a dead wallaby around my parents place in the many years they've been there. And now with all the development the roads are littered with dead wallabies. Oh a wallaby, who cares. This is a mans world.
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I hear you about the surveys. I question the truth of some of them.
We just have to keep pushing for animals to be respected. Even without the animal issue, we can't keep trashing the planet. Somehow I think it will fight back. Mother Earth is already giving us droughts and floods and more serious storms. Who knows how bad it could get. Caring for animals and their environment also preserves the environment we need to survive. We need to think about that before the consequences of our actions catch up with us.
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