Primeval forest must lose Unesco protection, says Poland

Environment minister Jan Szyszko has called for Białowieża to lose its heritage status, saying it was granted ‘illegally’ Poland’s environment minister, Jan Szyszko, whom green activists have criticised for allowing large-scale logging in the ancient Białowieża forest, has called for the woodland to be stripped of Unesco’s natural heritage status, banning human intervention.Białowieża, straddling Poland’s eastern border with Belarus, in