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That story is one of the weirder stories I've read on Hacker News recently. Cute though: "The last hamster of the fields gave a timid crow when Alexander Rese

• tfourb 3y ago
  This type of environmental mitigation is pretty common here in Germany. I'm currently working with a local organization that wants to revitalize an old water mill barn from the 1700s (I think). It's currently in a really bad shape but to even start the permitting process to put a new roof on it, we need a qualified person doing an environmental impact study, making sure that there are no rare bats or owls hanging out in the rafters. It's actually not that big of a deal, they basically go in, look closely for any signs of these animals and make a few photos, the actual report is only a page or so. But if there were any of those animals, they'd have to be professionally removed and resettled elsewhere and the new construction would likely have to be adapted to continue to offer habitats.