S.S.S.I.
S.A.C.
S.P.A.
L.B.A.P.
B.O.G.O.F.
Which is the odd one out?
All of the above acronyms (save one) are bureaucratic devices used to give control to deskbound officials who wish to exert power over our landscape. They are legal national or European designations lobbied for by publicly employed officers wanting to exert a stranglehold on the countryside. Using this they can use the weapons of clipboard and tick list to decide that what nature wants just will not do. And it keeps them in employment, the first duty of any bureaucrat.
SSSI= Site of Special Scientific Interest
SAC = Special Area of Conservation
SPA= Special Protection Area
LBAP= Local Biodiversity Action Plan
(I can't remember what the other one is.)
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