Saving Europe's Last Primeval Forest. AFP, August 13, 2010. "After three days of protests... Greenpeace said on August 13 that it had agreed with Poland on ways to protect the country's Bialowieza forest, Europe's last first-growth woodland. 'Thanks to today's agreement, logging will take place outside zones that are naturally precious. It's a great step forward in protecting this unique forest,' Robert Cyglicki, head of Greenpeace Poland, told reporters about the accord with the environment ministry… Fearing the issue will come up again next year, Greenpeace also wants the expansion of the Polish national park which currently covers some 17% of the Bialowieza forest… The vast Bialowieza forest, which covers some 140,000 hectares (345,000 acres) and spans the Polish-Belarussian border, is the final remnant of a massive woodland that spread across Europe after the last Ice Age, which ended about 10,000 years ago. About 800 European bison live there freely, half of them on the Polish side. It is also home to rare bird species and lynx."
2010-08-27
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