Jeremy is supporting a campaign to protect wildlife habitats and threatened species from corporate pollution, which has highlighted eleven areas in South West Surrey in danger from loopholes in the Environmental Liability Directive.Jeremy has signed two Early Day Motions on the Directive, after new research from GeneWatch showed that Brook Brick Pit, Charleshill, Charterhouse to Eashing, Chiddingfold Forest, the Devil’s Punch Bowl, Gong Hill, Hankley Farm, Moor Park, Netherside Stream Outcrops, Stockstone Quarry and Wey Valley Meadows are at threat from genetic and toxic pollution.He is calling on the Government to strengthen its implementation of the EU Environmental Liability Directive, which should introduce the ‘polluter pays’ principle and force businesses to be financially and legally accountable for any environmental damage they cause.In addition to the danger to the eleven Sites of Special Scientific Interest, the weakened legislation would fail to protect 375 UK Biodiversity Action Plan species including water voles, red squirrels and bullfinches.Jeremy said: “Once again the Government has decided to implement a watered-down version of legislation, which has allowed loopholes to appear and will fail to protect our most precious nature sites and the species that thrive on them.I am very concerned to see that eleven nature sites in South West Surrey would not be protected from the threat of genetically modified organisms, toxic waste disposal and the discharge of pollutants to water.Polluters have to be made accountable for any damage caused to the environment by their actions, so that they have some kind of disincentive for practices that cause harm to local habitats. The Environmental Liability Directive must apply to all SSSIs and must not be weakened to allow for excuses made by businesses.”