Lugg 'Ole!

Ocassionally, the crass nature of environmental damage takes your breath away. It has been reported that a mile-long stretch of the river Lugg at Kingsland (outside Leominster, Herefordshire) has been 'straightened' by bulldozing (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/04/police-move-in-after-herefordshire-river-bulldozed-and-straightened). This section of the trout river is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The 'cosmetic' treatment also involved mass tree felling and a scraping away of the gravel river bed, where the fish normally lay their eggs. The Environmental Agency (EA) and the police were eventually called in to put a stop to this activity but this was days after the damage started. The reduction of funding to the EA may well be a factor here. You can be keen on 'green' but, if there are no resources to rapidly 'police' inappropriate activities (and to impose meaningful punishments), environmental damage is inevitable.