Primeval forest must lose Unesco protection, says Poland
by EurActiv, part of the Guardian Environment Network from Environment | The Guardian on (#2TMSY)
Environment minister Jan Szyszko has called for BiaAowieA1/4a 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 BiaAowieA1/4a forest, has called for the woodland to be stripped of Unesco's natural heritage status, banning human intervention.
BiaAowieA1/4a, straddling Poland's eastern border with Belarus, includes one of the largest surviving parts of the primeval forest that covered the European plain 10,000 years ago. It also boasts unique plant and animal life, including the continent's largest mammal, the European bison.
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