{"id":446463,"date":"2026-02-26T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446463\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:19:07","slug":"port-of-tilbury-expansion-threatens-wildlife-warns-buglife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446463\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Tilbury expansion threatens wildlife, warns Buglife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site earmarked for development sits across both green and grey belt land east of the existing Port of Tilbury and Tilbury2, on the north bank of the Thames estuary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robins, the charity&#8217;s programmes manager, said building on the land would undermine efforts to reverse declining invertebrate numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We urgently need to see a coordinated masterplan to secure the future of Thurrock&#8217;s wildlife,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Stuart Wallace, chief executive of Forth Ports, said new habitats created as part of the expansion would &#8220;protect and enhance&#8221; the area&#8217;s nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council meeting papers showed Natural England and the Environment Agency had been consulted on the plan since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Papers said the scheme&#8217;s effects were &#8220;fully mitigated and compensated&#8221;, with a 69-acre (28ha) &#8220;compensation site&#8221; planned at Mucking Marshes landfill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The site earmarked for development sits across both green and grey belt land east of the existing Port&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-446463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}