The public enquiry on the proposed airport at Lydd is under way. RSPB staff will be giving evidence - probably next week.
Last week, amid the forestry hooha, the Independent featured the issues at Lydd in a long piece by Mike McCarthy.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
Many similarities here with the Donald Trump golf course in Scotland. Conservationists and local council were opposed to these plans yet it went ahead. Big money investors and the prospect of local jobs seems to sway final decisions.