Galway Farmer bestraft für die Zerstörung des seltenen Lebensraums für Kalksteinpflaster

4 hectares destroyed and only fined 9k.. terrible.

Worked for a business in the outdoor activity industry a few years ago and they bought an old native forest and converted it into a activity area for games/kayaking etc. Absolutely destroyed the place. Cut down old native trees, displaced wildlife (birds and frogs), and put wood chip down everywhere. Just a shame that we’ve so little respect for what precious native habitats we have left.

Back home in Donegal I used to volunteer with a local rivers/ wildlife group

When it began the idea was to remove invasive stuff like knotweed and Himalayan Balsam and regular clean ups, it quickly became an impossible battle against local farmers and the absolute carnage they carryout constantly. Honestly some of the shit you see feels spitefully pointless

I have no doubt the reason they’re so quick to object to greenways is because they know it’ll be that much harder for them to get away with it

Not that when they do get caught much of a fuck happens anyway

9k. Cost of doing business.

Will probably find a way of writing it off for tax, if he pays tax.

Custodians of the environment me hole. Measly fine for irreparable damage

The disdain we have for our environment absolutely disgusts me.

We’re culturally predisposed agaisnt anything that isn’t pumping as much C02 out as possible and extracting as much profit as we can from the land. I just bought a house with an old oil burner and I’ve gotten no end abuse from friends and family for looking to replace it with a heat pump instead of pitting in a new oil burner. They say it’s a waste not to put one in now before it becomes illegal in a few years.

That’s a disgrace .

They should have taken those 4 hectares off him even if he has destroyed the limestone he shouldn’t be allowed farm it.

If I were dictator of Ireland I’d come down on farmers like fuckin’ Stalin.