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Woody Plants
Tree Autecology and Biology
Temperate
Forest Ecology
Tropical
Forest Ecology
Forestry
Sand Dune Ecology
East Usambaras
Pitcairn
Islands
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In the 1980s the Portstewart
Golf Club attempted to expand it's course along the River Bann on an
area of mostly intact dunes.The construction of to new holes started
surreptitiously and threatened to annihilate a population of protected
bee orchids.The golf club, the National Trust with the blessing of the
local Conservation came to some informal agreement that the rare
species should be translocated, a move opposed by university
researchers (see newspaper report below pdf). After a long
saga the
work on the extension was not allowed to proceed.
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