Conservation rules slow Norfolk roadworks to snail's pace
by Press Association from Environment | The Guardian on (#45858)
Rare species of snail found near A47 will be monitored in new home until 2023
Snails with legally protected status could delay a road scheme by five years as a project to rehome them is kept under observation.
Ditches alongside a section of the A47 in Norfolk are a habitat for little whirlpool ramshorn snails, whose shells measure just a few millimetres in diameter.
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