And you clearly have misread what I said ... National Parks and Protected Marine environments = protected. Now how difficult is that to understand?
In that case I understand, he shouldn't have done that. You will also understand that if those environments are subsequently damaged then they'll get away with it by hiding behind the regulations they demonstrably adhered to, and all that will happen is the regulations will need to be changed, until the next time they fail to work and get changed again.