Sitticus distinguendus of the jumping spider family and a saltmarsh shortspur beetle
High Court battle over marshland habitat - Telegraph
Buglife is arguing that the UK delivers its international obligations, in part, through the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006) which places a new legal duty on all public bodies to have regard to the conservation of biodiversity.
It claims the Development Corporation overlooked its duties to protect biodiversity, failed to look for alternative sites for the development as required under law, overlooked its duty to protect vitally important species and downgraded the environmental impacts of the development.
West Thurrock Marshes on the banks of the river Thames was once a flower rich marshland but a power station was built after the war and large areas were used as a dumping ground for fuel ash.
Sitticus distinguendus
of the jumping spider family (left) and a saltmarsh shortspur beetle
When the power station closed down in the early 1990s wildlife began to return and the site is now one of the richest and most important wildlife sites.
Buglife says the marshes are home to more than 1,300 species of invertebrates, birds and reptiles, including 36 endangered species on the conservation Red Data Book.
It claims the proposed new distribution warehouse over an area the size of 15 football pitches, would destroy 70 per cent of the flower-rich grassland on which the creatures depend.
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Sitticus distinguendus - jumping spider;
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