ACTION

ANTI-INCINERATOR PETITION

Please sign the anti-incinerator petition of the St Dennis Incinerator Group (STIG). Click on the following http://st-ig.co.uk/petition.htm it's well worth looking through their website for more information on the campaign anyway.

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ANTI-NUCLEAR CAMPAIGN

Print out, sign and get others to sign our Anti-Nuclear Petition then send it back to us. (Click on link to find out more.)

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TRANSPORT CAMPAIGN

Butterfly Handbook from the Highways Agency & English Nature not telling the real story of Goss Moor – August 2006

A new Butterfly Handbook jointly funded by English Nature and the Highways Agency claiming to provide “.. a valuable reference manual for conservationists and highways engineers..” draws on the A30 Goss Moor road building scheme as an example of conservationists and road builders working together to produce positive conservation outcomes.

The reality is somewhat different.

The road will – and is already – having a disastrous environmental impact with the trashing of a SSSI (Criggan Moor), damage to the Goss Moor Special Area of Conservation itself (the new route sweeps across then northern edge of the internationally declared reserve) a loss of our fast-reducing agricultural land resource and previously quiet countryside decimated by the new route. Even where there are decent intentions, road building is a seminal devourer of the countryside and of our precious habitats. Above all, the scheme will result in an almost TREBLING of road space provision, impelling runaway growth in traffic and thereby swelling climate changing emissions from transport in Cornwall.

Cornwall FoE agrees with the Handbook that loss of habitat has been a prime driver in the decimation of butterfly and moth species in the UK in recent decades. Indeed during the many years of proposals for dealing with traffic problems on the A30 at Goss Moor, Cornwall FoE Transport Group was the only organization to consistently champion protection of the Moors’ rare habitats (producing traffic management alternatives to road building) – and being accused, farcically, of favouring butterflies over people!!

But the best protection for butterflies and other flora and fauna on the Moor - and elsewhere - lies with a recognition that climate change is the key threat, demanding a rational approach to traffic demand.

(See roads page for more information on roads and traffic demand. )

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