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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10434
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/environment

Romanian area of Carpathians under threat warns WWF

Brussels, 04/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - The WWF has sent out an SOS. According to the environmental protection organisation, the Carpathians, the last forest outside of Russia and Finland that is still intact in Europe, is under threat by a Romanian road building project. This project would seriously undermine EU legislative provisions on environmental protection (Habitats directive). The NGO considers that it would also be appropriate if the European Commission examined this...