Timber! Poland's bid to increase logging 8-fold in primeval Bialowieza Forest

The Ecologist
Feb 18, 2016, 9:25 am89 pts
Poland's environment ministry has a plan for a huge increase in logging in Europe's last great primeval forest, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Officials claim it's to control bark beetles. But ecologists say the insects are regulated naturally within the forest ecosystem, while logging threatens huge damage to…

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