Filthy’ River Cam cannot be cleaned due to nesting mother moorhen
I heard someone in the discussion about the Somerset floods mentioning that statutory agencies thought more about bird life than people. This article provides a small ongoing echo of that reflection. It tells us
Conservationists are being blocked from cleaning up one of Britain’s most scenic rivers – by a moorhen and her babies.
The Cam Conservators who look after the River Cam in Cambridge have had two dozen complaints about “unsightly” litter building up by Jesus Lock.
But they say they cannot move the debris because it could disturb a mother moorhen’s nest.
One chick has already been born and three more eggs are ready to hatch but they are perched on the edge of the weir.
The local conservators say disturbing the nest is illegal under the 1984 Wildlife and Countryside Act.