Polluters and regulators who fail to stop pollution must quake in their boots(吓得发抖) when they receive a letter from the lawyers for Tim and Geli Harris. The couple, who farm 460 acres in the Norfolk Broads, have now scored a hat-trick(上演帽子戏法，取得三连胜) of landmark(里程碑式的) legal victories to save an internationally important wetland(湿地) after they won again in the high court this month.
污染者，以及那些未能制止污染的监管者，一旦收到蒂姆·哈里斯和盖莉·哈里斯的律师来信，想必都会吓得两腿发软。这对夫妇在诺福克湖区经营着460英亩农场，本月他们再次在高等法院胜诉，从而完成了具有里程碑意义的法律三连胜，拯救了一片具有国际重要性的湿地。
Lady Justice Lieven(英国高等法院女法官利文) found that Natural England failed in its statutory(法定的) duty to protect Catfield Fen from pollution after nitrates and phosphates washed from arable(可耕种的) fields into one of the finest examples of calcareous(钙质的) fen in western Europe, home to 2,500 species including rarities such as the fen orchid, crested buckler fern, breeding bittern(麻鳽) and swallowtail butterflies.
利文女法官裁定，英格兰自然署未能履行其法定职责，保护卡特菲尔德沼泽免受污染。此前，硝酸盐和磷酸盐从耕地冲刷流入这片西欧最优质的钙质沼泽之一。这里是2500个物种的家园，其中包括沼兰、冠羽蕨、繁殖期的麻鳽和凤蝶等珍稀物种。
In a scathing assessment of Natural England’s inaction since the Harrises first reported the pollution to it in 2021, the judge said the cause of the pollution was “the most basic level of common sense” and required action by the government’s conservation watchdog.(法官严厉批评自然署自2021年接到举报以来的不作为，称污染成因“属于最基本的常识”。)
法官严厉批评了英格兰自然署自2021年哈里斯夫妇首次举报污染以来的不作为，称污染成因“属于最基本的常识”，并要求这家政府自然保护监管机构采取行动。