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London gateway Port

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Topic: London gateway Port

Posted By: Hawley
Subject: London gateway Port
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2013 at 9:41am

Interesting article in the CIRIA magazine about reptile relocation to make way for the London Gateway port.

http://ciria.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zNjU5NDE3JnA9MSZ1PTEwMTQwNjg0MzEmbGk9MjAyMDMxOTA/index.html" rel="nofollow - Download pdf

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Posted By: Chris Monk
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2013 at 11:15pm

Only one thing wrong with the article - the 30,000 reptiles were not moved locally to Essex or even a bit further to Sussex (as it says in the article) but were dumped on a grassland reserve in Wiltshire owned by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust part of which they subsequently proposed for a solar energy farm. There were some posts on this site about it at the time.
I wonder how many of those 30,000 reptiles survived, doubt if it was a high percentage.

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Chris

Derbyshire Amphibian & Reptile Group

www.derbyshirearg.co.uk