A contractor has been fined £50,000 after dumping over 5,000 tonnes of soil, stone, brick and concrete into a habitat for great crested newts.
Hereford Magistrates’ Court heard how John Jones Civil Engineering illegally deposited the waste in two land hollows at Bage Farm, Madley, Herefordshire between July 2014 and October 2014.
The dumping resulted in the disturbance, injury and killing of some of the newt population.
The contractor had a previous caution for environmental offences committed in 2010 and 2011.
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