Dunes at Trump's golf course lose protected status

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Conservation officials in Scotland said today that the coastal sand dunes at President Trump's Aberdeenshiregolf resort have lost their special status as a protected environmental site.NatureScot, Scotland's nature agency, said that following construction of the Trump International Golf Linkscourse at Menie, north of Aberdeen, the dunes no longer "merit being retained as part of the Site of SpecialScientific Interest."The sand dunes had been a "high quality example" of a geological system characteristic of northeast Scotland,the agency said.