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William Bunting (eco-warrior)
William Bunting (1916–1995) was an amateur naturalist and eco-warrior who is credited with saving the wildlife habitat of Thorne Moors from the planned dumping of 32 million tons of fuel-ash,〔("Thorne Moors : A Palaeoecological Study of a Bronze Age Site", by P.C. Buckland, p.6 )〕〔 peat-cutting and drainage, and for campaigning for the reinstatement of public footpaths on maps of the same Moors.
==Background==
He was born in Barnsley on 7 March 1916, and between 1936 and 1939 was involved with Spanish Civil War anarchists, working as a courier and smuggler.〔 He was later employed as an engineer's fitter. He was an auto-didactic naturalist and after 1950 on Thorne Moors he discovered an alga living on the antennae of water fleas. He contributed to the discovery of a Bronze Age trackway constructed of wood, buried on the same moors.〔
In the late 1940s he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and left the army with a pension and a severe inflammation of the vertebrae or Spondylopathy. Due to this he suffered pain and illness for the rest of his life, and this was possibly one of the reasons why he was described as "irascible, foul-mouthed and middle-aged",〔 and a "crochety eccentric".〔(The New Yorker: Catherine Caufield: Thorne Moors )〕 He died in 1995 at Doncaster.〔
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