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RSS FeedsEU`s Top Court Rules that Poland Violated EU Laws By Logging in Ancient Bialowieza Forest
(WorldNews Belgium)

 
 

17 april 2018 21:27:03

 
EU`s Top Court Rules that Poland Violated EU Laws By Logging in Ancient Bialowieza Forest
(WorldNews Belgium)
 


The EU`s highest court ruled on Tuesday that Poland`s logging in the UNESCO-protected Bialowieza forest was illegal, opening the door to potential fines reaching into the millions of euros, according to The Guardian. Activists said that at least 10,000 trees were believed to have been cut down in Bialowieza, one of Europe`s last primeval woodland areas, after Polish environment minister Jan Szyzko tripled the logging limits in the forest in 2016. The environmental group Greenpeace said that as many as 100,000 conifers and broad-leaved trees in the lowland forest may have been lost due to the work while Poland argues that the trees needed to be cut down in order to curb a spruce beetle...


 
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