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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7880

13 January 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment
According to WWF, the construction of a rowing and canoeing centre for the Olympic Games in Greece is contrary to the "Habitats" and "Wild Birds" directives - Call for the designation of the area as protected natural site

Brussels, 12/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The forthcoming Olympic Games in Greece are a threat to the safeguard of a protected natural site in the framework of Community legislation on nature protection. This is what the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) claims. At a press conference organised in Brussels, WWF calls on the Greek authorities to renounce their proposal of, in 2004, constructing a rowing and canoeing centre in Schinias, important coastal wetland which, it says, is home to treasures...

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