The team behind the East West Rail link must consider its environmental impact, campaigners say.
She says EWR is "paying lip service" and that a flatter, shorter route suggested by BFARE has been "disregarded".Image caption,'We are working to protect species'Mark Cuzner said the team at EWR are closely monitoring the movement of species to "compensation sites", which is responsible for the delivery of the project, says the environmental impact on the existing ecology is "probably one of the biggest challenges" of the scheme.
"What we've seen so far is that all our compensation sites are being used by the various habitats and we've not seen any failures in those local populations.He said they were also working to protect local badger setts and creating more than 30 breeding sites for the mammals.
When farmer Tim Scott's land at Comberton, Cambridgeshire, was acquired 23 years ago, it was a "blank canvas", he says. "The main fear here is the land is very narrow and the impact of the railway line on this Westfield farm would be enormous," he adds.
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