The dormouse appears to be getting his revenge

The dormouse appears to be getting his revenge, from being a delicacy to now preventing developers from gaining planning consent if mitigation plans are not in place. Mark Thackeray of Walsingham Planning explains the situation…
For centuries, back to Roman times and still in places such as Croatia and Slovenia, the dormouse was considered a delicacy – stuffed and then roasted or fried – yum, yum. To distinguish him from his dormouse chums, Glis glis (according to Linnaeus in 1766) has become known as the Edible Dormouse or the Fat Dormouse – so much for political correctness, when such fattist comments are permissible. What bad luck when, had Glis been less portly and less appetising, he might have been protected by law and kept from the oven, in the same way that his relative Muscardinus Avellanarius has been. Maybe Glis should have acquired a posher Latin name.