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Herefordshire river will take decades to recover from 'vandalism' (www.bbc.co.uk)
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An ecologist says it will take 20 to 30 years for a stretch of River Lugg in Herefordshire to recover after being damaged by a local farmer.

John Price was jailed in 2023 for illegally removing tonnes of gravel from the riverbed to build a road and horse yard at his home and tearing out 71 trees.

He was ordered to pay £600,000 and to restore the damage he had done.

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[–] 0 points 5 months ago*

Yeah, this is how minimising language works - it's technically correct, but it minimises the actual harm. I'm not saying that it doesn't meet the definition of vandalism, but when someone says "vandalism", absolutely nobody in the entire world thinks "oh, that's when you destroy multiple ecosystems for your personal benefit to expand your farm". It's ridiculous.

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