24-06-2017 19:55 via seattletimes.com

Polish protesters demand halt to logging in primeval forest

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds have marched in Warsaw to protest widespread logging in Europe’s last primeval forest, a project undertaken taken by Poland’s conservative government. The ruling Law and Justice party has allowed increased logging in the Bialowieza Forest, a vast woodland that straddles Poland and Belarus, alarming environmentalists who say it threatens a […]
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