[rockfowl]

Rare bats in the path of HS2 are nationally significant
July 2011. A significant population of rare Bechstein's bats has been discovered in Buckinghamshire - in ancient woodland either side of the proposed HS2 route and adjacent to the proposed site of a waste incinerator. Until 2010, only a single Bechstein's bat had been found in Bucks - in the far south of the county, at Cliveden.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news...ats011.html#cr

[angusmcoatup]

Originally Posted by rockfowl

Rare bats in the path of HS2 are nationally significant
July 2011. A significant population of rare Bechstein's bats has been discovered in Buckinghamshire - in ancient woodland either side of the proposed HS2 route and adjacent to the proposed site of a waste incinerator. Until 2010, only a single Bechstein's bat had been found in Bucks - in the far south of the county, at Cliveden.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news...ats011.html#cr

I get the feeling the list of wildlife species that will be "displaced" by HS2 is going to be impressive.

[AndyMc]

Hmmm.
Possibly why the Governement is reviewing the present Wildlife & Habitat Regs? .

http://www.bats.org.uk/news.php/137/...commendations_

[angusmcoatup]

Nah, the governments full of bat lovers. They wouldn't do something underhand like weaken conservation legislation so they could make pots of cash, that'd be immoral.

Hmmmmmmmmm!

[StuartReeves]

Reminds me of this old thread.