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Poland continues logging despite EU court ruling
By EUobserver
Polish environment minister Jan Szyszko said on Monday that logging will continue in the Unesco-listed Bialowieza forest, even after the EU Court of Justice ordered Poland to stop it last week. In an interim ruling, the court said that logging would cause "serious and irremediable damage" to the European primeval forest. The Polish government argues that logging is needed to fight a bark beetle outbreak.