CAMPAIGNS
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES & CAMPAIGNS
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OUR CAMPAIGNS & PROJECTS SO FAR!
Examples where we have advocated, supported or signposted :
• Global campaign to Save the Honey Bees
• Earth Hour—asking local councils to involve more schools and businesses by example.
• Stonehenge campaign to keep parking available for ceremonial visits outside normal hours.
• Swans—protection in Sheffield and Plymouth.
• Woodland threatened by developers in Bristol.
• Ongoing campaign Tara in Ireland.
• Somerset community fighting to save their ancient tree.
• Wind turbines located in environmentally sensitive areas in Cornwall [We all support WTs but not in SSSI/AONB - issue now resolved satisfactorily to all]
• Developers building on parkland.
• Damage/vandalism to many UK ancient monuments and sites; setting up petition .
• Golf course planned for ancient meadows.
• Housing development on last cider orchards in Somerset.
• Supermarkets on various sites threatening ancient meadowland; felling trees at nesting time, etc
• Reburial issue of relics at Stonehenge.
•Checking museums’ policies relating to respectful care of ancient relics, bones.
. Overview of Gov policy re Devonport base to be used as nuclear submarine scrapyard
.Co-ordinating responses to planning applications re Stonehenge TRO non-parking & Visitor Centre
• Petitions too numerous to list but especially on 10 Downing St website: to have stronger enforcement of legislation to protect ancient sacred monuments and also the GLOBAL campaign to save the Honey Bees.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
LATEST CAMPAIGN NEWS
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SAVE PORTLAND COASTAL STRIP, DORSET
A quarrying company has declared its intention to quarry an area called 'the coastal strip', from Southwell Village to Portland Bill. This is an area of outstanding natural beauty, viewed by many thousands of visitors to the Bill, each year.
The 1951 permission to quarry still stands, but quarrying would devastate the entire area, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, affect unique habitats and rare archaeology.
TITNORE LANE, WORTHING
Since May 2006 campaigners have lived rough in the woods to protect them and the ancient meadowland from developers building another Tesco - and local campaigners have joined them throughout the appalling weather and deprivation. We have arranged supplies over the years and are still in touch. Look for the campaign on Facebook too.
SNUFF MILLS WOODS, BRISTOL
The past couple of years have seen a group of campaigners working hard to save their woods from developers, especially the walks alongside the river and where the rights of way are. We have been supporting and encouraging them from the start and they are now an award winning environmental group in their own right but the woods are not safe yet, and a blanket TPO has been challenged even after being applied by the Council.
Latest news 10 June 2010 is that the council decided unaimously to declare Grove wood a Local Nature Reserve and to compulsorily purchase it from Lord Jafari if he does not reach a management agreement! EXCELLENT RESULT!
WREKIN THREATENED BY MINING
The 230 acre site near the foot of The Wrekin encompasses both open ground and woodland, eats into the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is also home to the protected scheduled New Works Ancient Monument.
At least one County Wildlife Site at Limekiln Wood and the flora and fauna of the Borough’s largest and most valuable areas of ancient woodland are threatened by the surface mine. The development also involves the disturbance of four badger setts and the foraging territories of a further two badger clans.
Not only does the proposed mine represent a major blot on the beautiful rural landscape, being clearly visible from the Wrekin and many other local areas, and also create three years of noise and dust for local residents – it will also be responsible for a minimum of 2,430,000 tonnes of climate changing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
INCINERATOR CAMPAIGNS UK WIDE
Check out the information, the different arguments regarding how to dispose of our waste, the dioxin debate and how to ensure particles are filtered out adequately especially in areas of high density housing.
BROUGHTON WOODS - WOODLAND TRUST CAMPAIGN Friends of the Earth group and other local people have been fighting to save this wood for several years in the face of attempts by a hotel company to extend their golf course. If it hadn't been for the Woodland Trust we would have lost the battle before now. But it's costing them around £40k. Hence this unprecedented appeal. Please help if you can
