Walking along the itch of the jinn river in Hambashire You may see water foxes, salmon, fish and clouds from Mayflies, all of which are supported by the unique ecosystem of the chalk.
The United Kingdom does not have a tropical rain forests or tigers. It can be said that her wildlife is more modest in appearance. But its chalk currents are some of the rarests of the world – there are only 200, and England It includes 85 % of them. If you look properly, it is a biological and beautiful diversity like any rain forest.
Despite the scarcity and importance of these very pure rivers, which are full of minerals from the groundwater layer, they do not have specific legal protection. Environmental protection advocates fear a draft law planning party Use the country’s departure from the European Union To make the legal developers destroy them, as long as they compensate for harm by paying a box to create Nature elsewhere.
“The chalk currents are an indispensable home. They are incredibly fragile and incredibly, but we hold our drinking water and throw our wastewater.” Deby Tan, CEO of Hampsuire and White Island Wildlife He said confidence.
The currents of chalk currently contain some protection under the guidance of the habitats derived from the European Union, which protect some rare creatures supported by currents. But the new planning and infrastructure bill for the Labor Party goes beyond this protection, allowing developers to pay in the nature restoration fund instead of avoiding destruction and pollution in construction. Although this barter will be useful in some cases, nature activists argue that you cannot compensate for the damage to rare and indispensable habitat like the chalk stream.
Tan said: “I think the tax is almost designed to create an alternative or an alternative home elsewhere for the thing that affects it. This will not work in the context of the chalk stroke. You can not only create a new one elsewhere.”
Itching looks flaws, and its sparkling water full of healthy plants, fish and invertebrates. Some environmental scientists take samples of life in the pillar of the river. Only a small scoop of dirt and gravel is filled with life, from the larvae of Mayfly and Caddisflishly to the shrimp, long files and to leave long.
But the river must fight against many pressures, starting from the sewage that retracts from a nearby maintenance opening to stripping of drinking water, as well as a new drainage tube that will pump the surface flow directly from the highway to its virgin water.
Hama Al -Nahr says that there is not much that can be taken. Ideally, these rivers will be surrounded by a meadow that can absorb some pollution brought by heavy rains.
Tan said: “This is one of the best chalk streams in the country. It looks beautiful and is very good, but it suffers from the effects of climate change. We have problems with pollution here. The surrounding land does not act like a good insulation because it is full of housing and industrial queens.
The Labor Party obtained votes in the general elections for the past year by focusing on the sewage scandal, which allowed water companies to empty human waste in the rivers and UK sea. Care Starmer promised to clean the country’s rivers.
Martin de Rituero, president of Hampsheer and White White Wildlife Island, said that broken promises mean that their local river increases its pollution.
“The level of participation and activity on these rivers by the local population is now high, and I think there may be a little turning between people in how those responsible for them see them, if the river is not taken seriously.”
The Labor Party will not be able to change the habitat protection law, the exit of Britain from the European Union, as this means getting rid of the guidance of habitats in the European Union. Tan said: “This is Brexit, an offense from the highest arrangement,” Tan said. “Successive governments promised to promote protection after Britain’s exit from the European Union, but this is the opposite.”
Some of our chalk currents are already dying or dead. The Ver River dries near ST Albans, HERTFORDSHIRIR, every summer because it is very excessive, and weak management means gravel that must often spawn the fish in a thick layer of silt.
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Itchen enjoyed some protection because it is a large hunting river, and it was also carrying the protection of fishermen, and it also had the wildlife boxes that you take care of. In turn, the river took care of the local city, Winschest.
“In 2014, we had some very severe floods, which is one in 200 years. It can be said that the city did not fade anywhere approaching badly due to the restoration of the flood plains that we did here.
“Climate collapsing means that we will test more extremist events in the floods in addition to dehydration events, and we are the bottleneck for the city. So this site will continue to play its role, but there is a point where it is not possible to recover more frequency than extremist events in addition to absorbing all other pressures it faces.”
The wildlife funds supported the amendment of the draft planning law, which was presented by Labor Representative Chris Henchelv, who would perpetuate protection for chalk currents as irreplaceable habitats. The planners will have to ensure that they do not harm rare habitats with abstraction, pollution, or surface flow when designing their developments.
Tan said: “We would like to see the classic classes classified correctly as an indispensable homeland and we have appropriate protection in planning. We are not hostile to development. We have never been, but it is about the right development in the right place, and a point must come as there is a lot of these precious sites.”
But Starmer described people like Tann and De Returto as “blockers” because of their natural campaign. The government also described the protection of nature as a “red strip” that must be cut.
Tan said: “Why is this red tape calling? The protection of the Red Red Red St. Paul will not be called.
“These tables are part of our identity as a country. It is not true that the disposal of nature protection is somehow this magical bullet that will enable economic growth. It is the wrong answer to the problem, and it will not help it. At the same time, we will lose these last bits of the incredible natural environment.”
