Environmental sabotage (in a good way)

[moorfield]

Long story - but I need to find some protected-species type animals that can be released onto some greenfield / brownfield land that may help scupper a local development for the good cause of rampant nimbyism that exists in our village.

Any recommendations anyone, and where / how I can get hold of them ?

[BrilloPad]

Freeloading MPs are protected.

HTH

[minestrone]

I am highly involved in a 'protect my park' type campaign. They want to build 180 houses on some land near me. Even though there are 3 badger sets there which they are not allowed to move by law they are still going through with it.

http://huntlypark.com/

[HairyArsedBloke]

You need some of these.

HTH

[OwlHoot]

Or plants - For example, Corfe Castle has several dozen species of rare litchen growing on the stones scattered around.

I suppose the downside is that you'd have to spend weeks reading up on litchens to become expert enough to know which ones are rare, and then figure out how smuggle several tons of masonry past the ticket office.

Failing that, is this site damp? If so, newts or natterjack toads or water rats might be the answer.

If it's sandy and heathery, for example in Dorset, then slow worms might be a good choice, or that rare species of lizard found only in Dorset.

[Cliphead]

I think newts might fit the bill, plenty around in ponds. Used to collect them from greenfield sites that were about to be built on when I was a kid and move them somewhere else, other way about now I think.

Might be wrong though.

[TykeMerc]

Newts are the ideal candidate.

Some redevelopment at a clients site delayed for no less than 18 months while they set up, monitored and reviewed a complex set of traps and huge area newt fences. The fences and traps cost an absolute fortune and there were a set of incredibly specific conditions to be met for each trapping and counting night to be valid. Excluding delays to the project the newt stuff cost the better part of 200k.

They found and trapped exactly ZERO newts!!!!!

[Pogle]

Guinea pigs?

[TykeMerc]

Guinea pigs?

He's looking for an environmental obsticle not a snack food item!!!!

[darmstadt]

Don't use one of these otherwise they will bulldoze the whole place, concrete it over and declare it a no-go zone