WARSAW: Greenpeace activists Tuesday called on Poland’s environment ministry to “save” the Bialowieza forest, Europe’s last primeval woodland, by safeguarding it against planned large-scale logging.
The environment group hung a massive banner across the ministry building that read “Entire Bialowieza Forest should be a national park”, a move that would give the site protective status. “This is the very last moment to save Bialowieza Forest,” Greenpeace Poland head Robert Cyglicki said in a statement, as only part of the Polish woodland is currently a national park.