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Re: defending the nature conservation directives

Thanks to Nick and everyone who stepped up to support this campaign. The half-million mark was substantially exceeded. The final score was:

Over half a million (520,325) people from across Europe, including over 100,000 people from the UK, have supported the call not to amend the legislation. This is by the largest public response to any consultation published by the European Commission. The consultation closed at 11pm on Sunday 26 July, 2015.

A continent-wide study demonstrating how effective EU protection has been in protecting birds has just been published in the scientific journal Conservation Letters (a stringently refereed, high profile international journal). This is available free from the journal's website:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12196/abstract

Dave