In simple terms the Inspector has found after the three and a half week Public Inquiry held in April in Norwich that:
- ecological change confirms that the Fen is in danger
- increasing acidification is the cause
- water abstraction is the most likely explanation by reducing the flow of alkaline groundwater to the Fen
- our fen management is good...
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The EU's environment commissioner is to launch an investigation into whether British authorities have adequately protected one of the Broads' most precious natural sites.
Seven...
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A landowner's battle to save one the Broads' most precious wildlife havens has taken a dramatic turn — which could have far-reaching implications for...
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Conservation bodies have come together to issue a final appeal to the environment agency (EA) to safeguard the future of a Broads wildlife haven.
A...
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Wildlife campaigners were yesterday celebrating a landmark step in their fight to protect rare species at a Broads beauty spot which they claim is...
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A wildlife charity has warned that the UK's largest colony of the rare fen orchid could be under threat because its Catfield Fen habitat...
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To landowner Tim Harris and his wife Geli it has been a frustrating battle with officialdom to save what the Environment Agency (EA) describes...
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Catfield Fen and its neighbour Sutton Fen, both near the east Norfolk coast, are home to more than 90% of the UK’s population of...
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We all love a good villain – and that's a rule that counts double for writers. Grendel and his still more villainous mother,...
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Images of flood victims on the Somerset Levels have raised the question: Does the Environment Agency listen to ordinary people? Ironically in...
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While too much water has been causing the Environment Agency (EA) trouble in the west and south, in East Anglia the quango and its...
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Straddling two river systems at the top of the Norfolk Broads, Catfield Fen is host to an exceptional range of plant and animal species.
Among...
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A major legal challenge has been launched in a bid to quash the rebranding of the Broads. The purported rebranding has the potential to...
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A date has been set for the High Court hearing which could see the rebranding of the Broads overturned.
Landowners Tim and Geli Harris of...
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