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12/29/00 -- First FSC Forest Management Certification in Latvia

12/29/00 -- Greens see greed, neglect tainting Siberia's pearl

12/27/00 -- Dormice in danger

12/22/00 -- Birds balk at cork crisis

12/21/00 -- Europe's Soil Degradation a Silent Disaster

12/20/00 -- UNEP and EEA Call for Urgent Action to Protect Europe's Damaged Soil

12/20/00 -- UN Conference Looks at Europe's Growing "Desert"

12/20/00 -- Sahara jumps Mediterranean into Europe

12/19/00 -- A third of Europe threatened by erosion, UN official says

12/18/00 -- German ambassador caught axing Macedonia's protected fir species

12/13/00 -- France digs in to restore its forests

12/12/00 -- The Siberian Jay - a pawn in the fight to protect Finnish forests

12/08/00 -- Put Higher Environmental Demands on Imported Wood from Russia and the Baltic States

12/07/00 -- Green Fuels Threaten Britain's Bird Population

12/06/00 -- European Awards Recognize Green Friendly Firms

12/05/00 -- Mysterious Deaths Deepen Concerns About Russia’s “Sacred Lake”

12/04/00 -- Geneva Awarded FSC Certification for its Forests

12/01/00 -- CO from Siberian fires reached Japan in 1998

11/30/00 -- Russian greens to fight ruling barring referendum

11/30/00 -- Russian Forest Update N59-60

11/30/00 -- Russian environmental referendum bid fails

11/29/00 -- Good News, Bad News From UK Countryside Survey

11/28/00 -- Britain opens huge seed vault

11/25/00 -- The battle to save Britain's bogs

11/21/00 -- European Union Spares UK's Beloved Hedgerows

11/20/00 -- Bird Habitat Central to UK Port Expansion Battle

11/09/00 -- Farming changes contributed to UK flooding - report

11/08/00 -- Russia Ups Forest-Product Exports 4% in Jan-Sept

11/08/00 -- Millennium tree for every household

11/06/00 -- UK Group Investigates Decline in Starlings and Sparrows

10/30/00 -- Russian Forest Update # 56-57-58

10/25/00 -- Finnish forest industry booming, study finds

10/24/00 -- Finishing Off Finland's Old Growth

10/16/00 -- World powers protect polar bears

10/16/00 -- United States, Russia Agree on Bear Preservation

10/16/00 -- Russia, US agree on polar bear protection

10/16/00 -- Polar Bear Pact Protects U.S. and Russian Bears

10/15/00 -- Public outcry to support Russian nature

10/13/00 -- Over 50 Percent of Conifers in Czech Republic Damaged -- EU Report

10/11/00 -- Report Shows 20 Percent of Europe's Forest Damaged

10/11/00 -- Pollution Takes Its Toll on Europe's Forests

10/10/00 -- 2000 Report on the forest condition in Europe

10/09/00 -- Call to jail bird persecutors

10/09/00 -- Russian Forest Threatened, Government Abolished Forest Protection Agencies

10/04/00 -- State Forest Service to Manage Russian Forests as Part of Natural Resources Ministry

10/04/00 -- First Ever FSC Endorsed Sleepers Installed By Railtrack

10/03/00 -- UK's 'Garden of Eden' takes root

09/28/00 -- Almost half of Sweden's forests FSC-certified

09/27/00 -- Scotland's wildlife caught in deadly snare

09/27/00 -- Mediterranean Nations Share Knowledge to Halt Desertification

09/25/00 -- European Giant Kronospan is Awarded FSC Certificate

09/21/00 -- World Bank Conditions Russian Forest Projects on Restructuring of Environment Agency, But Will it Cave in to Weak Reforms?

09/12/00 -- Poaching, over-fishing threaten Russian brown bears

09/12/00 -- Europe: First FM certification in Estonia

09/08/00 -- Emergency Action: World Bank Funding in Russia

09/06/00 -- Putin's Policies Shake Russia's Environmentalists

09/06/00 -- Groups Protest World Bank's Loans to Russia

09/05/00 -- Fewer Than 30 Leopards Left in Russia's Far East

08/31/00 -- Rare Scottish bird could face extinction - report

08/31/00 -- Police Keep Poachers Away from Rare Scottish Birds

08/30/00 -- Rival Finnish Forest Schemes Lock Axes

08/28/00 -- UK Proposes 81 New Sites for Wildlife Protection

08/22/00 -- Russians Sue Putin Over Environmental Agency Purge

08/11/00 -- VICTORY: UK Government Cuts Purchase of Illegal Timber

08/10/00 -- UK's Rural Beautification Scheme Blooming

08/07/00 -- Forest Fire Rages in Spain

08/06/00 -- RUSSIA: Corruption, Trade, Illegal Logging Threaten Far East Forests

08/03/00 -- RUSSIA: Environmentalists Blast Plundering of Sakhalin Island

08/02/00--World premiere: Swiss print shop acquires FSC-certificate

07/30/00--Siberian Conservationists Press for Nature Preserves

07/27/00--China's Demand for Timber Fuels Clear- cutting in Siberia

07/26/00--Britain urges end to trade in banned wildlife

07/26/00--IUCN and WWF Warn of a Global Inferno Unless Governments Act Now

07/26/00--Rare vultures survive on Croatian island

07/25/00--Israel's desert leopards fight extinction

07/24/00--Greenpeace activists released after G8 summit

07/24/00--Illegal Logging, Rising Consumption Threaten Russian

07/23/00--Japan Frees Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior As G8 Ends

07/21/00--ACTION PLAN 'HYPOCRISY' Groups hit G-8 inaction on illegal logging

07/21/00--Russian Environments Seek New Watchdog Role

07/17/00--Greece seeks international help against forest fires

07/17/00--Protect Mediterranean Before Species Are Lost, Warns WWF

07/14/00--Greenpeace Ends Timber Protest in Portugal

07/11/00--Birdlovers buy London marshes

07/11/00--Wild Birds of Europe at Risk Despite Legal Protections

07/11/00--World Bank Loans Raise Ire of Russian Environmentalists

07/10/00--12% of Swiss timber production FSC-certified by the end of 2000

07/10/00--Russian Forest Update # 54-55

07/10/00--Wildfires Rage Throughout SE Europe

07/09/00--Russia Is an Eco-Disaster, and It Just Got Worse

07/06/00--Illegal Logging Biz Grows in Russia

07/05/00--Activists offer to leave Russian freighter at Japanese port

07/05/00--Activists Board Russian Freighter Containing Illegal Timber

07/05/00--Activists Chain Themselves to Ship

07/05/00--Putin puts future of Siberian tiger at risk

07/04/00--Environmental Information: Not Just a Freedom but a Right

06/30/00--Greenpeace says a fifth of Russian logging illegal

06/26/00--Stora Enso and Vapo Oy Energia Agree To Increase Large-Scale Use of Forest Chips in Finland

06/19/00--More than 80% of ancient woodlands without protection

06/18/00--Karelian old-growth moratorium threatened!

06/15/00--One in three European wildlife sites unprotected, warns WWF

06/15/00--Turkey gets $11.54 mln fund for biodiversity project

06/14/00--Forest Fires Spread to Huge Territories in Far East

06/14/00--Protect Russian Environment, President Putin Urged

06/13/00--Bear and man too close for comfort in Slovenia

06/08/00--Green charcoal gives butterflies a lift

06/07/00--Britain: Wildlife under siege by aliens

06/07/00--Russian Greens up in arms after state body axed

06/06/00--Danube River Green Corridor Created

06/05/00--WWF honours Eastern European action for wetlands

05/24/00--World Bank Loans Russia $60 M for Sustainable Forestry

05/23/00--Environmentalists say Putin allows nature theft

05/23/00--Russia Eliminates Environmental Agency

05/22/00--Europe Backs Africa, Other Nations on Biodiversity Protocol

05/22/00--Putin Abolishes Russian Environmental Agencies Without Comment

05/22/00--Romania to Plant 2 Million Hectares with Forest

05/11/00--Finland has fewer valuable old-growth forests than believed

05/09/00--Tourists Key to Saving Wolves

05/09/00--Europe Urged to Build Tourism Around Wild Animals

05/05/00--Wild Fires Rage in Russia's Far East

05/04/00--Protect Snow Leopard Habitat / Siberia

05/03/00--High Winds Spread Forest Fires in the Russian Far East

05/02/00--Russia's FOREST UPDATE, No. 52

05/02/00--UK Farmers 'Need Cash to Nurture Nature'

04/30/00--Friends of the Earth UK Call for Scandinavian Lobbying

04/27/00--First Russian Timber Producers Certified Sustainable

04/25/00--Wolves Find Haven in Italy

04/17/00--Russian Forest Update N 50

04/02/00--Shepherds in France Cry Wolf

04/01/00--Russian Forest Update N 51

03/31/00--Intensive Farming Threatens Europe Bird Sites

03/29/00--Intensive Farming Threatens Important Bird Habitats

03/28/00--WWF Battles Olympic Facilities in Greek Wetland

3/11/00--France Plans to Put Wolves in Firing Line

3/6/00--Ramblers, Wildlife Win Under UK Countryside Bill

3/3/00--Finnish Court Backs Hydropower Plan to Flood Wetland

3/1/00--Wood Wars: Corruption Threatens Welfare of Siberia

2/28/00--UK Ancient Forest Moved Before Road Widened

2/24/00--Two Rare Siberian Tigers Killed in Russia

2/24/00--New Trees Take Root in France

2/16/00--Environmental leader appeals to Japan over Siberian forests

2/16/00--Bid to Save England's Endangered Plants

2/16/00--Romania Admits Responsibility for Cyanide Spill

2/15/99--Russia: Gold Rush Tramples Nature Reserve in Disputed Kuril Islands

2/13/00--Cyanide Spill Pours Across Border Into Yugoslavia

2/13/00--Romanian Cyanide Spill Poisons Danube Region

2/12/00--Yugoslavia Announces Legal Action as Cyanide Pollution Spreads

2/8/00--Austria Abolishes Independent Environment Ministry

2/8/00--Wetlands Preserve Makes Big Splash in the Balkans

2/7/00--Russian NGOs Forest Club Update #46-47

2/4/00--Balkan Leaders Declare Lake Prespes Nature Park

2/3/00--New Hope for United Kingdom's Birds of Prey

2/3/00--Sweden to Invest in Research to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

2/3/00--Southern England Rapidly Being Developed

2/2/00--WWF Welcomes Creation of First Transboundary Park in the Balkans

1/28/00--WWF Urges Europe to Save Endangered Species

1/28/00--'Grim Future' for Europe's Wildlife

1/27/00--Last Chance for Europe's Endangered Species

1/26/00--France: Versailles Wants to Replant Forests

1/25/00--December Storms Damaged Europe's Forests

1/25/00--Europe Gets Poor Marks in Forestry Care

1/20/00--European Countries Neglecting their Forests, WWF Says

1/12/00--French Forest Owners Count Cost of Storm, Seek Aid 

1/9/00--Action Plan Set for France's Forests

1/4/00--Restoring Felled French Forests May Take 200 Years

1/4/00--Some Butterflies Face Extinction as Flowers Vanish

1/4/00--Storms Disaster for Timber Markets

1/4/00--Restoring Felled French Forests May Take 200 Years

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