An item in today's news has highlighted an important long-term issue with a pressing immediate matter.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3412666.ece

Also visit:

http://www.buglife.org.uk/News/newsarchive/thurrockmarshes.htm

We may find it more comfortable to consider the issue of a few rare bugs or insects to be relatively unimportant but it really isn't. Biodiversity reflects ecological and environmental health and each loss of biodiversity is a step nearer the brink.

Just as in tennis, in which game it is no good simply fighting the last point (you have to fight EVERY point to win), so it is with biodiversity. Each rung of the biodiversity ladder that disappears takes us a step nearer defeat. Leave it to the last point and it is too late to retrieve the match.

Taken from the above site:

For further information call Jamie Roberts on 01733 201 210 or
07747 715 820.

Buglife-The Invertebrate Conservation Trust is the first organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, and is actively engaged in saving Britain's rarest bugs, butterflies, snails, bees, wasps, ants, spiders, beetles and many more fascinating creatures. Set up in 2000, the charity now has eight members of staff working of diverse projects including a national bumblebee survey and riverfly conservation www.buglife.org.uk

Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation:

http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/a2z/content.php?page=service&ID=349

Of course, jobs and infrastructure are important to society but, at some point, they become irrelevant, as society will have no place to live. I wish Buglife well in its High Court fight to save West Thurrock Marshes on behalf of all of us.

[Why not take a look at www.alternativevet.org , while you're here?]