{"id":317458,"date":"2021-11-25T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=317458"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:03:03","slug":"bizarre-eu-ruling-thats-threatening-our-churches-directive-giving-protection-to-bats-could-see-dozens-of-religious-buildings-closed-because-of-damage-animals-cause-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=317458","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre EU ruling that&apos;s threatening our churches: Directive giving protection to bats could see dozens of religious buildings closed because of damage animals cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2>Bizarre EU ruling that&#8217;s threatening our churches: Directive giving protection to bats could see dozens of religious buildings closed because of damage animals cause<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: bold\"><font style=\"font-size:1.4em\">Infestations making many churches &#8216;unsustainable for worship&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: bold\"><font style=\"font-size:1.4em\">But they are impossible for church authorities to remove under EU law<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font style=\"font-size:1.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Calls for the Government to issue licences for destroying bat nests<\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By  <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span>  02:38 BST, 26 June 2013  <\/span> | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span>  19:19 BST, 26 June 2013  <\/span> <\/p>\n<div data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=\"\" id=\"articleIconLinksContainer\">\n<ul> <b><\/p>\n<li class=\"share-facebook-long\"><\/li>\n<p><\/b> <\/p>\n<li class=\"share-twitter\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-pinterest\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-flipboard\">  <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-fbmessenger\">  <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-email\">  <\/li>\n<p> &lt;li data-anchor=&quot;tl&quot; data-twitter-status=&quot; website via @MailOnline&quot; data-formatted-headline=&quot;Bizarre EU ruling that\\&#039;s threatening our churches: Directive giving protection to bats could see dozens of religious buildings closed because of damage animals cause&quot; data-hide-email=&quot;true&quot; data-article-id=&quot;2348642&quot; data-article-channel-follow-button=&quot;MailOnline&quot; data-is-channel=&quot;false&quot; id=&quot;shareLinkTop&quot; class=&quot;share-icons&quot; data-placement=&quot;top&quot; website  <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p> <!-- ad: website --><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">Medieval churches that survived the \u2018ravages of the Reformation&#8217; are under threat from a Brussels directive giving blanket protection to bats, MPs were warned yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/search?query=Sir%20Tony\">Sir Tony<\/a> Baldry, who represents the Church of England in the Commons,  <a href=\"http:\/\/astralprojectionwiki.org\/index.php?title=Slender_Man_Creator_Says_He_Is_apos;deeply_Saddened_apos;_By_Wisconsin_Attack\">successful unique lacquer paintings<\/a> said dozens of parish churches were facing potential closure because of the crippling cost of dealing with bat infestations.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">He told MPs that bat droppings were causing serious damage to medieval wall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caravax.com\/tranh-tho-cuu-huyen-that-to-tranh-son-mai-tphcm\/\">Paintings to worship the dead ancestors<\/a>, sculptures and wooden effigies &#8211; as well as posing a potential health hazard that has already forced the closure of one parish church.<\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter\">   <img height=\"382\" width=\"634\" alt=\"They're the nation's natural insecticide, says Monty Halls, but our bats need your help to survive...\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">They&#8217;re the nation&#8217;s natural insecticide, says Monty Halls, but our bats need your help to survive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">But under the EU Habitats Directive, bats are given sweeping protections, making it impossible for the church authorities to deal with them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">Appealing to the Government to licence the destruction of bat nests, Sir Tony said: \u2018Many of the churches affected by bat infestation are approaching a situation where their buildings may be unsustainable as a place of worship.<\/font><\/p>\n<div data-track-module=\"am-related_carousel^related_carousel\" data-track-selector=\".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])\" data-dm-rotator-rotate=\"false\" data-track-pos=\"static\" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=\"\" data-dm-rotator-auto-init=\"\" id=\"p-20\" class=\"related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news half\" data-dm-rotator-active-class=\"active\" data-dm-rotator-page-count=\"2.0\" data-dm-social-article-auto-init=\"\" data-dm-rotator-page-size=\"1\">\n<div class=\"rotator bdrcc\">\n<div class=\"rotator-title\">\n<h2>RELATED ARTICLES<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rotator-pages link-xocc\">\n<li class=\"rotator-prev\"><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li class=\"rotator-next\"><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>   <\/li>\n<li>  <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p> <strong><u><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb\"><\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n<h2>Share this article<\/h2>\n<div class=\"share\"><span class=\"wai\">Share<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">\u2018Now it is sometimes said that excluding bats from churches will render the bats homeless. But actually there is every chance that church congregations will find themselves homeless and without a place of worship with listed buildings left unoccupied and that is surely a solution which is undesirable for both bats and people.&#8221; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">He went on: \u2018I cannot believe that the European Commission would want a situation in which it was not possible for congregations to worship in churches that go back to the time of the Conqueror, because of bat infestations.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">Citing an example in his constituency in Banbury, Oxfordshire, he added: \u2018The church of St Peter ad Vincula at South Newington in my own constituency has some very fine, almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caravax.com\/tranh-tho-cuu-huyen-that-to-tranh-son-mai-tphcm\/\">successful unique lacquer paintings<\/a>, medieval wall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caravax.com\/tranh-tho-cuu-huyen-that-to-tranh-son-mai-tphcm\/\">Paintings to worship the dead ancestors<\/a> which seem to have been spared Thomas Cromwell&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre EU ruling that&#8217;s threatening our churches: Directive giving protection t\u2026","protected":false},"author":80382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317459,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317458\/revisions\/317459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}