Luxembourg, 04/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - Advocate General Philipe Léger proposes that the Court of Justice should find Ireland guilty because, he says, it did nothing to stop overgrazing in the so-called special protection area (SPA) that covers the Owenduff-Nephin Beg Complex, 26,000 hectares of peat land that includes the Owenduff water basin and the Nephin Beg chain of mountains in County Mayo, to the west of Ireland.
The excessive grazing by sheep endangers the habitat of the red...