I’m appalled by the housing codes (PLU in French). They do require to estimate and compensate the fauna and flora, by providing other shelters in another forrest for example, or manually
moving individuals (butterflies, birds).
But it will never be the same! Maybe that land was in the middle of a communication axis, maybe it had the right fungus. If you move all the species around, it’s like when you move all the humans around: They become unrooted, and, ultimately, stress on their lives shows up as obesity or as socially disordered!
We need to stop colonizing more land. We need to limit population in a country.
It’s less about structures than it is other modifications to natural habitats like pollution, cutting forests, draining swamps, introducing invasive species, and growing crops.
But it will never be the same! Maybe that land was in the middle of a communication axis, maybe it had the right fungus. If you move all the species around, it’s like when you move all the humans around: They become unrooted, and, ultimately, stress on their lives shows up as obesity or as socially disordered!
We need to stop colonizing more land. We need to limit population in a country.