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Old 26th October 2007, 18:48
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Originally Posted by GWR9600 View Post
Unbeliveable. But I suppose as they are a protected species you cant just kill thier habitat when you want to open a railway station. There was up roar when the Newbry by-pass went through an area of scientiffic special interest.
I think I read somewhere recently that they have done a 5-years after ecological survey and they found that the carefully protected Desmoulin Snails had turned up their noses (feelers??) at their £1m recreated spcial habitat and happily slithered off to a bit of natural river nearby, where they werent supposed to be able to live, and were doing very nicely thank you.
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