#natura 2000

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📍𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻, 𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀, 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗲 🇬🇷  

The Park, founded in 2000, is the most important wetland in Attica. The area of the Park reaches 13,000 acres. Historically, the site is identified with the field of the Battle of Marathon (490 BC), there was the Persian camp. The forest is at risk of fires due to the composition of the vegetation. The area belongs to the Natura 2000 network with 115 species of birds and endangered species of fish, reptiles and amphibians.

Photo and commentary by Vasilis Chrisanthopoulos. 

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A matter of facts, rebels and leaked documents: Competing Romania illegal logging fact-finding missions advance amid rumours EU infringement could be dropped

Article supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting

by Crina-Gabriela Boroş

(Photo: Clearcut in Natura 2000 site from where FSC-certified wood is being exploited in Fagaras mountains, Romania, May 16 2023. Clearcuts are illegal in Natura 2000 sites. Copyrighted - all rights reserved.)

‘These guys are approving logging without any idea whether that logging would damage a key habitat or a species!’

This is the reason environmental activists quote when asked why they’re winning court cases against public authorities permitting logging in Natura 2000 sites in Romania. Yet, despite EU infringements and complaints, saws are louder than birds in protected forests. In a pre-European Parliamentary election year, are current facts sufficient for the EU to take Romania to the European Court of Justice?

Just days ago, a European Parliament Petition (PETI) delegation visited Romania following an illegal logging complaint, as well as a list of other habitat destruction complaints that have forest destruction as common denominator. Delegates chose a press-proofed route to witness that “everything was well and under control” in Romania’s forests, as Environment Minister Barna Tánczos would tell them in his welcoming speech.

Stopped from witnessing what PETI does, we accompanied rebel MEPs and environmental activists to allegedly protected sites to observe “unfolding crime” and reveal a catalogue of forest management irregularities.

LORDS OF TIMBER is a project supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting, managed by the European Journalism Centre and the International Press Institute. This is one article in a series exposing aspects tied to EU’s “famous” “environmental” infringement.

Notorious

“Romania faces several challenges with respect to the implementation of the nature protection Directives”, an EU Environment Commission (DG ENVI) official said just a few weeks ago, “but this is the famous one!”. She means the illegal logging matter raised by the Commission.

EU’s infringements database is, in fact, chokablok with environmental charges against Romania, like pus leaking from a wound that won’t heal.

Read the article in full on PRESSHub - https://presshub.ro/a-matter-of-facts-rebels-and-leaked-documents-competing-romania-illegal-logging-fact-finding-missions-advance-amid-rumours-ue-infrigment-could-be-dropped-273480/

LORDS OF TIMBER is a project supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting, managed by the European Journalism Centre and the International Press Institute. This is one article in a series exposing aspects tied to EU’s “famous” “environmental” infringement.

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Dziś po raz pierwszy wzięłam artystyczny udział w Wielkopolskim Festiwalu Fotografii - razem ze wspaniałą Gosią Kowalską przygotowałyśmy wystawę, która otworzyła tegoroczną edycję.

Wszystkiego nie zdradzamy, wszystkiego nie pokazuję. Zapraszamy do Wylatkowa, a za miesiąc do Poznania.

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Βιάστηκε πολύ η Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Λασιθίου να ταχθεί υπέρ των αιολικών πάρκων

Βιάστηκε πολύ η Αρχαιολογική Υπηρεσία (Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Λασιθίου) να ταχθεί υπέρ των αιολικών πάρκων στις κορυφογραμμές της Δίκτης. Σε μια προστατευόμενη περιοχή Natura 2000 και με υψηλό αρχαιολογικό ενδιαφέρον. Αυτό τουλάχιστον θεωρούσαμε, ότι το Δικταίο Άντρο, το Καρφί, το Κρόνιο Σπήλαιο, είναι περιοχές υψηλού αρχαιολογικού ενδιαφέροντος.  Continue reading Βιάστηκε πολύ η Εφορεία…

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First hike of the trip! Got to go see Viiankiaapa before those bastards at the mining companies can get their hands on it...

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Christian Testa e il viaggio poetico: "Pensieri poetici nel tempo". Un’opera che esplora il cuore umano, la natura e i valori universali con profonda sensibilità

Christian Testa, con la sua raccolta "Pensieri poetici nel tempo", pubblicata nel 2024 da Guido Miano Editore, ci invita a intraprendere un viaggio emozionale attraverso i temi della memoria, della natura, della musica e della spiritualità.

Recensione dettagliata:Christian Testa, con la sua raccolta “Pensieri poetici nel tempo”, pubblicata nel 2024 da Guido Miano Editore, ci invita a intraprendere un viaggio emozionale attraverso i temi della memoria, della natura, della musica e della spiritualità. La raccolta, composta da 68 pagine, si distingue per l’ampia gamma di tematiche affrontate, che spaziano dall’amore per la propria…

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Que se mueran las montañas pobres, que se mueran

Por Julio Fernández Peláez Ecologísta social. Este artículo de Julio Fernández se publica después del firmado por miembros cualificados de Ecologistas en Acción en El Salto bajo el título de Energías renovables sí, pero no así. Entonces, ¿cómo? Recomendamos leerlo previamente. Y es que, como dice Julio Fernández al final de este artículo, “necesitamos organizaciones ecologistas nuevas y…

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In Natura Shake (2002)

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EXCLUSIVE: Romanian Environment Ministry releases closed-doors meeting recording, revealing forest and biodiversity loss admission in talk with European Parliament delegates

Article supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting

by Crina-Gabriela Boroş

(Photo: Truck transporting freshly-cut wood from a private forest (according to Romsilva employees present), driving through Romsilva’s Ocolul Domneşti on a rainy day in South Făgăraş mountains, 17 May 2023. Copyrighted - all rights reserved.)

Pressed by us and in a move to refute European Parliament’s petition delegation’s allegation of closed-door policy during a joint meeting in Bucharest, the Romanian Ministry of Environment released the event’s audio recording – probing illegal logging and environment destruction complaints – to Freedom House Romania / PressHub.

On Tuesday May 6, PREShub published the PETI delegation’s reaction to our revelation that media access to key moments of their fact-finding visit to Romania was tightly controlled and severely restricted.

The delegation held discussions with the Ministry of Environment and visited the country, following complaints regarding systemic illegal logging, as well as a list of referrals regarding the destruction of protected habitats.

The PRESShub’s feature contains a quote from the Ministry of Environment’s chief spokesperson, who told us that it was the PETI delegates who did not allow media representatives to attend the technical meeting with the Minister on a critical issue of major public interest.

But PETI delegation lead Yana Toom wrote to PRESShub to “clarify that shortly before the meeting at the Ministry the leader of the delegation asked the participants if they agreed to the participation of journalists in the meeting and that the Minister of Environment objected”.

Romania’s Ministry of the Environment responds to PETI

PRESShub requested a clarification from the Ministry of the Environment, regarding the latter statement from PETI’s response. Afterall, Environment, Waters and Forests Minister’s spokesperson Mihai Drăgan did initially tell us that „the only reason why the press did not have access to the meeting is that this was at the request of PETI delegates. The nature of this meeting is not public”.

A Ministry of Environment’s representative specified that such a discussion between the two sides, about media access, did not take place!

„Following preliminary discussions for the organisation of the meeting on May 15, as well as the PETI Commission’s usual practices for similar actions, MMAP proposed media access for image opportunities at the beginning of the meeting, as well as the support of statements by the participants at the end”, the communique sais.

“The EP representatives had no objections to the proposed format, also stating that, due to the limited time, there will be no press statements from the delegation leadership.”

“Regarding the information according to which there would have been a discussion before the actual meeting, in which the head of the EP delegation would have requested the consent for the participation of journalists and the minister would have opposed it, we specify that the information is totally erroneous, such a discussion did not exist, neither at the beginning of the meeting, nor after it”, an Environment Ministry’s spokesperson said.

As such, “in the spirit of transparency”, the Romanian Environment Ministry is granting access to the full recording of the talks, released exclusively to PRESShub.

Listen to the recording on SoundCloud - https://tinyurl.com/4s4yjmkc. 

(Original article published on PRESSHub - https://presshub.ro/exclusive-romanian-environment-ministry-releases-closed-doors-meeting-recording-revealing-forest-and-biodiversity-loss-admission-in-talk-with-european-parliament-delegates-274472/)

LORDS OF TIMBER is a project supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting, managed by the European Journalism Centre and the International Press Institute. This is one article in a series exposing aspects tied to EU’s “famous” “environmental” infringement.

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Τα Όρνια φωλιάζουν ξανά στην Πάρνηθα μετά από δεκαετίες!

Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus), Crete Ένα ελπιδοφόρο νέο για τη φετινή ημέρα NATURA 2000 (21 Μαΐου) Η Ελληνική ΟΡΝΙΘΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ Εταιρεία γιορτάζει με ένα ελπιδοφόρο νέο την Ευρωπαϊκή Ημέρα NATURA 2000, μία ημέρα αφιερωμένη στο μεγαλύτερο δίκτυο προστατευόμενων περιοχών στον κόσμο, που προστατεύει τα πλέον απειλούμενα είδη και οικοτόπους της Ευρώπης. Continue reading Τα Όρνια φωλιάζουν ξανά στην…