DAWN in Bialowieza forest, and the bellowing of deer in rut competes with the buzz of chainsaws. The rival rackets sum up an increasingly ill-tempered argument over the Polish half of the ancient ...

Read the NGO letter to EU Commission's President Juncker, VP Timmermans and Environment Commissioner Vella asking to stop the Polish Government from logging the UNESCO Bialowieza Forest. WWF and other ...

FILE PHOTO: Logged trees are seen at one of the last primeval forests in Europe, Bialowieza forest, near Bialowieza village WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will resume some logging in the ancient Bialowieza ...

BIALOWIEZA, Poland — The fallen giant, a decaying, moss-covered oak tree toppled by an autumn storm 27 years ago, is quite literally the stuff of which legends are made. Six centuries ago, a great ...

WARSAW, Poland, June 24, 2018 (ENS) – Bialowieza Forest on the border between Poland and Belarus, is a vast extent of primary forest in the watershed of the Baltic Sea and Black Sea, covering an area ...

Today, the EU Court of Justice decided to impose a daily penalty of EUR 100,000 on Poland if the government continues to defy a ban against logging activities in the EU protected Bialowieza Forest.

The European Court of Justice has ordered Poland to immediately stop logging in the ancient Bialowieza forest. But will its controversial government accept the ruling? In the Bialowieza forest, ...

Polish police have detained several eco-activists staging a sit-in at Poland's forest management agency, some of whom chained themselves to a gate. They were protesting logging in the UNESCO-protected ...

The Bialowieza Forest is a protected area being part of the Natura 2000 network. The EC has charged Poland with violating some of the regulations of the EU's Habitats Directive (directive on the ...