The Polish government has opened an exhibition in the European Parliament to justify logging in the primeval Bialowieza forest.
"We want to save the forest from its false defenders, who would allow the forest to rot away before our eyes,” said Jadwiga Wisniewska, the MEP from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party who organised the event.
Poland’s environment minister Jan Szyszko attended the event's opening on Wednesday (31 August).
Bialowieza - located on Poland’s easter...
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