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12/27/01 -- UK: Feathers clue to warbler's travels

12/27/01 -- No safe haven for Norway’s wolves

12/26/01 -- WWF proposes a sustainable solution to the Wloclawek dam problem

12/25/01 -- UK: Rain-shy dormice risk starvation

12/24/01 -- Government approves power plant near rare Iceland flora

12/20/01 -- Iceland's Environment Minister Gives Green Light to Hydro Power Project - serious setback for conservation

12/19/01 -- British birds stage patchy recovery

12/17/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 74

12/17/01 -- Mushroom Enthusiasts Create UK's First Map of Fungus Sites

12/12/01 -- Norway to dump coal from Arctic wilderness into EU

12/12/01 -- Norway defends Arctic coal plan

12/11/01 -- Food transport from afar wasteful, risky - UK group

12/10/01 -- UK: Finding those elusive fungi

12/10/01 -- Russian Forest Update # N19 (73) (November 2001)

12/10/01 -- Year of the Mountains 2002 - last hope for the Alps?

12/10/01 -- EU set to double packaging recycling targets

12/05/01 -- UK: Rare species make a comeback

12/05/01 -- UK: Conservation Programme Helps Threatened Species Recover

12/05/01 -- UK wildlife claws its way back

12/03/01 -- Greenpeace activists chain selves to Russian lumber ship

11/27/01 -- ENGLAND: Green battle over port begins

11/27/01 -- 'Super-Port Would Wreck Vital Wildlife Habitats'

11/24/01 -- SCOTLAND: Wildlife Survey Optimistic for Many Species of Birds

11/23/01 -- UK - first country in the world to certify all its state forests under the Forest Stewardship Council scheme

11/23/01 -- Europe makes u-turn on sinks

11/22/01 -- WWF launches EU Accession Initiative

11/22/01 -- UK farming needs a revolution, green group says

11/22/01 -- England's woodlands growing to 1,000-year record total

11/21/01 -- UK: Campaigners Call for Legal Protection on Woodlands

11/21/01 -- Storm seen blowing life into Finnish timber trade

11/21/01 -- SCOTLAND: £6m project to preserve Ben Nevis

11/20/01 -- Massacre of protected birds in Hungary

11/16/01 -- Rimbunan Hijau logging in Russia sparks eco-fears

11/14/01 -- UK: Wildlife will wander in warmer world

11/14/01 -- UK: Climate change threat to wildlife

11/12/01 -- Europe Seeks Tougher Enforcement of Wildlife Smuggling Law

11/11/01 -- New study charts future of British species

11/10/01 -- Endangered Animal Species Return to Czech Nature

11/09/01 -- Rivers and estuaries in England and Wales “probably cleaner than they have been since before the industrial revolution”

11/09/01 -- Historic Precedent Set By Dutch Bank

11/05/01 -- Minks From Fur Farms Ravage U.K. Wildlife

11/05/01 -- Lifeline for farmland birds

11/04/01 -- UK: Global warming 'could affect' winter birds

11/02/01 -- FRANCE: Court upholds states' rights to protect wild birds

11/01/01 -- UK: Butterflies flying into trouble

11/01/01 -- Loss of habitat takes toll on British butterflies

11/01/01 -- BRITAIN: Butterflies on wane

10/31/01 -- Russia To Export $1 Bln In Logs This Year

10/31/01 -- National Park left damaged as Boliden Limited pulls out of Doñana

10/31/01 -- EU Eco-Farming Not So Green After All, Says Group

10/31/01 -- British butterflies 'in decline'

10/29/01 -- Illegal logging spreads in Russia

10/26/01 -- New report shows massive environmental benefits to the 13 EU candidates upon compliance

10/23/01 -- Europe's Largest Reservoir to Fill Despite Dispute

10/17/01 -- Index Launched for Europe's Greenest Firms

10/15/01 -- Sweden best at balancing growth with environment

10/15/01 -- Green farming schemes 'don't work'

10/15/01 -- GREECE: Suspicious fire destroys forest in protected sea turtle marine park

10/14/01 -- ENGLAND: Refuge for red squirrels

10/12/01 -- Fires spread over 25,000 ha in Far East Russia taiga

10/11/01 -- Danger Stalks Russia's Remaining Forest

10/10/01 -- Russian forestry export potential amounts to $150 billion

10/10/01 -- New Maps Indicate Little is Left of Europe's Last Wilderness Forests

10/09/01 -- Russia's threadbare forests revealed

10/08/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 71-72

10/08/01 -- Life Returns to Jordan's Parched Oasis

10/08/01 -- Huge forest fires in Russia's Far East

10/06/01 -- Endangered Siberian tigers flee forest fires

10/05/01 -- UK: 'Last wilderness' to become firing range

10/05/01 -- Forest fires ravage Far East, make life nasty for tens of thousands

10/04/01 -- WWF helps combat new wave of forest fires in Siberian tiger habitat

10/04/01 -- RUSSIA: More than 120,000 forest acres burned by wildfires in Far East

10/03/01 -- Wildfires sweep across 49,000 hectares in Russian Far East

10/03/01 -- Wildfires Ravage Russian Forests

09/29/01 -- Seychelles under threat

09/25/01 -- M-Real says to incorporate forest assets

09/22/01 -- UK: A Forest Rises from the Ashes

09/21/01 -- Forest Planting Genetically Altered Squirrels, Research Shows

09/18/01 -- Intensive farming blamed for Europe's food crisis

09/13/01 -- Stockholm lenders meeting okays Russia eco-projects

09/12/01 -- New hope for Siberia's big cats

09/10/01 -- Threat to Forest as EU Demands Cash Back

09/10/01 -- SCOTLAND: Spotlight on Health on Nation's Ecology

09/09/01 -- Big game abounding as French hunters resume arms

09/07/01 -- Tiger-Leopard Reserve Set Aside on Chinese-Russian Border

09/07/01 -- Polish bison-hunter is still in love with his forest

09/07/01 -- Ireland’s first ever biodiversity report highlights concerns both old and new

09/06/01 -- UK: Increase in vCJD cases not a 'blip'

09/05/01 -- UK: Green policies 'ignore poor'

09/05/01 -- UK: Deal to save coastal wetlands

09/05/01 -- Biggest Europe reservoir to start filling year end

09/03/01 -- Marsh Birds from Southern Europe 'Will Colonise UK'

08/31/01 -- UPM set to sell Finnish forest land if buyer found

08/24/01 -- RUSSIA: For Lake Baikal, an Unclear Future

08/24/01 -- Russia wants debts written off for "environmental services"

08/23/01 -- Spanish Rural Regions Get Millions for Environmental Protection

08/23/01 -- £3.5billion needed for disgraceful parks

08/22/01 -- UK estuaries 'risk becoming deserts'

08/21/01 -- Don't shoot our bear, Poles urge Slovaks

08/18/01 -- France's Tree-Lined Drives in Jeopardy

08/15/01 -- Seeds of revolution: Why farmers must prepare to make radical changes

08/11/01 -- RUSSIA: A Forestry Service Between a Tree and a Hard Place

08/10/01 -- NORWAY: Forest-owners initiate anti-wolf campaign

08/10/01 -- Fifty Percent of European Tropical Timber Imports Illegal

08/09/01 -- Polish government must take new approach to prevent future floods says WWF

08/06/01 -- Lithuanian Environment Vice-Minister Resigns Amid Forest Chopping

08/06/01 -- Bats eat flying birds, say scientists

08/02/01 -- Fire destroys thousands of hectares of woodland in northern Spain

08/01/01 -- Lithuanian President Indignant at Forest Chopping for Statoil Station

07/31/01 -- Wetlands 'can lessen flood threat'

07/31/01 -- Computer Model Could Save Red Squirrels' Last Stronghold

07/25/01 -- German forests expand as world forests shrink

07/21/01 -- Poland's primeval forest fight

07/21/01 -- Czechs grapple with acid rain aftermath in forests

07/20/01 -- Cyprus fire under control, "ecological disaster"

07/19/01 -- Estonian Forests Boast 600 Bears

07/19/01 -- Cyprus Fire Under Control, 'Ecological Disaster'

07/18/01 -- WWF-Norway asks for justification for wolf cull

07/17/01 -- EU urged to focus farm reform on environment

07/16/01 -- Russia's Duma approves crucial land code

07/13/01 -- Upside down world of a special plant

07/13/01 -- Plant rustlers dig up rare British orchid

07/13/01 -- New campaign seeks to protect Spain's much-loved southern coast

07/13/01 -- Belgium Sets Forth Presidency's Green Priorities

07/11/01 -- Ecologist named French environment minister

07/06/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 70

07/06/01 -- Fire destroys forest of old trees in northern Lebanon

07/05/01 -- UK: 'Pioneer" Dormice Released in Woodland

07/04/01 -- New evidence on bad practises of PEFC –certified Finnish forestry

07/04/01 -- Ecologist blasts "criminal" forest fires in north Lebanon

07/04/01 -- Dormice head back to the woods

07/03/01 -- Gene bank to save rare breeds

07/02/01 -- Belgium's EU Presidency has to live up to the challenge of leadership

06/28/01 -- Race to save EU Species too slow

06/28/01 -- Britain calls for move away from intensive farming

06/26/01 -- Puffins in peril on island paradise

06/26/01 -- New threats to UK otters' survival

06/24/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 69

06/22/01 -- RUSSIA: Taiga near lake Baikal ablaze

06/20/01 -- Golden eagles to fly again over Ireland

06/19/01 -- Environmentalists Agree with Cibrians Stand on Sumava Logging

06/18/01 -- Olive farming alert

06/18/01 -- Europe Incorporates Sustainable Development Strategy

06/18/01 -- EU olive subsidies driving Med to ruin

06/17/01 -- Roads 'threaten countryside'

06/17/01 -- MI6 'firm' spied on green groups

06/15/01 -- EU Sustainability Plan Heading for a Fall

06/14/01 -- Europe Proposes Trade Advantages for Green Nations

06/14/01 -- EU summit to focus on environment, enlargement

06/12/01 -- Environmental activists are  fighting against all the odds

06/11/01 -- New green ministry faces tests

06/10/01 -- Osprey hatches in England

06/09/01 -- WALES: Rare toads hop home after 30 years

06/08/01 -- EU Helps Candidate Countries with Environmental Financing

06/06/01 -- Croatia Safeguards Old Growth Forests

06/05/01 -- Mediterranean forest jewel protected in Croatia, WWF announces

06/04/01 -- EU assembly toughens up 10-year green action plan

06/02/01 -- POLAND: Seeing a Forest for the Trees

05/31/01 -- Ten soccer fields of land a day lost to roads - EU

05/31/01 -- Saving the Siberian Tiger

05/29/09 -- European Environment Agency Signals Natural Resource Stress

05/29/01 -- British Scientists Unveil First Eagle Born from Frozen Sperm

05/28/01 -- SCOTLAND: Bird-breeding system off to a flier

05/25/01 -- Slovak Paradise gains new partners for protection

05/25/01 -- Ratty returns to UK reedbeds

05/23/01 -- Experts Urge Kuzvart to Halt Tree Cutting in Sumava

05/19/01 -- Encouraging the survival of the forest

05/18/01 -- German Court Allows Airbus Factory to Fill in Wetland

05/17/01 -- Brussels push for sustainable development

05/16/01 -- Prodi Articulates Sustainable Development Strategy for Europe

05/15/01 -- Siberia, Russian Far East hit by flooding, forest fires

05/14/01 -- European Ag Ministers Support Organic Farming

05/12/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 68

05/11/01 -- Ospreys nest in England again

05/11/01 -- Iceland: Will Norsk Hydro Support Wilderness Destruction?

05/10/01 -- UK 'should monitor wildlife health'

05/08/01 -- Iceland provides hope to Russia's Eastern Frontier

05/08/01 -- Environmentalists fail to prevent development of protected German wetland

05/07/01 -- WWF: Dubious Eco-Label on the Austrian Wood Market

05/07/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 66-67

05/07/01 -- Police Chase Wolf Through Stockholm

05/07/01 -- Enshrine Green Rights in French Constitution, Chirac Urges

05/04/01 -- Sweden Legislates for Sustainability

05/03/01 -- Popular birds disappearing from British gardens

05/02/01 -- WWF working to save the Iberian Lynx

05/02/01 -- Russians Eye Antarctica's Forbidden Minerals

04/30/01 -- WWF calls for massive investment in rural Britain

04/30/01 -- FSC moves ahead in Romania

04/30/01 -- Finnish paper recycling rate rose in 2000

04/30/01 -- Danube set for green overhaul

04/30/01 -- Composting's Virtues Extolled Across The UK

04/30/01 -- Campaigners Battle to Save Lowland Peat Bogs

04/28/01 -- Portugal to build dam despite cave drawings find

04/26/01 -- Turkey's Gediz Delta Left Out of Protective Grant

04/25/01 -- UK butterfly decline steepens

04/24/01 -- Butterflies Facing Doom as Habitat Shrinks - Survey

04/23/01 -- New threat to Siberian tiger

04/20/01 -- Europe's Rivers Ready for Revival

04/17/01 -- With More Than 500 Landslips in One Winter, Britain Really is Crumbling Like Never Before

04/17/01 -- UK Garden Store Chain Takes Lead For Peat's Sake

04/10/01 -- Britain's foot-and-mouth spreads

04/09/01 -- Norway's Lone Wolf 'Martin,' One That Got Away

04/09/01 -- Give a bee a good home

04/05/01 -- EU Takes Bird Conservation Fight to The Finnish

04/07/01 -- Lone wolf survives controversial Norway hunt

04/06/01 -- Tourists support conservation of primeval Bialowieza Forest

04/06/01 -- Lone Norway wolf has one day to freedom after hunt

04/06/01 -- Financial Company Joins Network for Responsible Forestry

04/04/01 -- World Bank to lend Russia $60 mln for forestry project

04/04/01 -- UK minister demands farming rethink after epidemic

04/02/01 -- Environment: EU Boomed on the Back of Natural Resources

04/02/01 -- Decision to Pull Out of Massive Chilean Wood Chip Mill

03/30/01 -- World Wildlife Fund Warns of Negative Impact of Mediterranean Tourism

03/28/01 -- EU Elevates Role of Biodiversity in Policy Making

03/28/01 -- Campaign demands EU ape research ban

03/27/01 -- UK House of Lords Votes to Keep Fox Hunting

03/27/01 -- Action Alert: The Murmansk State Committee on Natural Resources Rejects Plans of Creation of New Protected Areas

03/27/01 -- Business Backs Eco Label

03/25/01 -- UK steps up foot-and-mouth cull, crisis mounts

03/25/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 65

03/24/01 -- UK Gives £3.5m to Help Global Wildlife

03/23/01 -- Foot And Mouth Disease Grips Europe

03/23/01 -- A Race Against Time to Save Europe's Nature: The Habitats Directive

03/22/01 -- Climate change main threat to UK forests - report

03/21/01 -- Woodland watch goes on the web

03/21/01 -- Climatic change may kill off trees

03/20/01 -- Norway hunters kill four wolves from helicopters

03/19/01 -- UK must reduce its forest footprint

03/16/01 -- Illegal Cutting Destroys Woods - Press

03/15/01 -- UK's hi-tech 'Garden of Eden'

03/15/01 -- Rare animals at risk in UK from foot-and-mouth

03/14/01 -- Regeneration is the Key for Scottish Forest

03/13/01 -- Foot And Mouth Disease Spreads to Mainland Europe

03/12/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 64

03/09/01 -- EU Probed as German Wetlands Saga Gets Murkier

03/09/01 -- Eastern Europe Floods: Human suffering could have been reduced

03/09/01 -- Norway: wolf cries

03/07/01 -- Europe's organic lobby says nature needs nurture

03/06/01 -- UK Blair's green credentials tarnished, MPs say

03/06/01 -- Only 1 in 15 European Forests Protected

03/06/01 -- Is organic farming answer to Europe's food crisis?

03/02/01 -- British butterflies 'face extinction'

03/01/01 -- Tourism Killing The Mediterranean, Travel Fair Told

03/01/01 -- Destruction of the Mediterranean by mass tourism poses a challenge for industry, warns WWF

02/27/01 -- Sand Muddies Legal Waters in German Wetland Fight

02/26/01 -- Two wolves killed in Norwegian hunt

02/25/01 -- Huge Dam/Forest Clearance Threatens Lynx

02/24/01 -- Reclaiming ancient forests for our future

02/23/01 -- UK Given 10 Ways to Live up to Rio Summit Pledge

02/22/01 -- Environment must be at the heart of sustainable developmen tin Europe, say independent advisors

02/22/01 -- Call for action over wildlife

02/21/01 -- US agency helping Russia to protect its forests

02/21/01 -- Investors in Pulp Mill in Latvia Demand More Forests: Press

02/21/01 -- Female Pup First to Succumb to Norway's Wolf Cull

02/21/01 -- Blair to Boost Green Credentials with Plan to Protect Rainforests

02/20/01 -- Smell of weevil poo could protect Swedish forests

02/20/01 -- Norwegian hunters kill wolf in controversial hunt

02/20/01 -- Harsh winter threatens rare Russian leopard

02/20/01 -- German Wetland Expendable For National Interest

02/20/01 -- Frozen out Harsh winter threatens rare Russian leopard

02/16/01 -- Ramsar Convention Head Condemns Destruction of Protected German Wetland for New Airbus Facility

02/15/01 -- Tree-planting pledges show forest gumption Hugh Thompson describes an enterprise that helps to clear the air

02/15/01 -- Green Row Over Holyrood Timber

02/15/01 -- FSC Changes the European Timber and Paper Market

02/15/01 -- Norway greens in court trying stop wolf hunt

02/14/01 -- Russia/Canada to work on forest conservation

02/14/01 -- UK Picks Valentine's Day to Protect Rare Love Nests

02/14/01 -- Sumava National Park in Czech Republic Threatened

02/13/01 -- Intensive olive farming harms environment - report

02/13/01 -- Fragile habitats 'sacrificed' for development

02/13/01 -- Environmentalists in Court Trying Stop Wolf Hunt

02/13/01 -- Department accepts moving wolves to the Oslo forests

02/12/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 62-63

02/12/01 -- Portugal To Cut 1.3 Million Trees

02/12/01 -- Norway wolf hunters said receiving death threats

02/10/01 -- Norway Wolf Trackers Start Controversial Hunt

02/10/01 -- Norway Hunters Fail to Find Wolves on First Day

02/09/01 -- WWF joins howls of protest as wolf hunt gets final go-ahead

02/09/01 -- Raptors Better Protected in UK's North Pennines

02/09/01 -- Norwegians Split Over Wolf Hunt

02/09/01 -- EU vanguard may set pace on green tax-commissioner

02/07/01 -- Ministers Curb New Building on Floodplains

02/07/01 -- Norway Licenses Wolf Cull

02/06/01 -- Norway approves wolf hunt to howls of protest

02/05/01 -- Public Gains Influence Under EU's New Green Law

02/05/01 -- London Makes up For Lost Biodiversity

02/01/01 -- Russia sees its timber reserves rising

02/01/01 -- Europe's green farming crusade to face obstacles

01/31/01 -- UK Countryside Scheme Gives Birds Royal Treatment

01/30/01 -- Industry Driven Forestry Certification Won't Fool Market-Certifies Forestry Not Forests

01/30/01 -- WWF asks Hungary to convert farms back to wetlands

01/29/01 -- UK Life Quality Index Finds Environment in Flux

01/29/01 -- Industry driven forestry certification won’t fool market—certifies forestry practices not forests

01/28/01 -- Europe's Decaying Ecosystem

01/24/01 -- Commission proposes new action programme for the environment

01/20/01 -- After 70 Years in Exile, the Black Stork Returns to Europe's Forests

01/20/01 -- Beaver to return to wild

01/19/01 -- Finnish economy needs new forestries products for sustainable growth - survey

01/19/01 -- EU deceiving public over environment - Euro MP

01/16/01 -- To Ban or Not to Ban? MPs Vote on UK Fox Hunt

01/15/01 -- Norway Eyes Wolf Cull to Protect Sheep

01/14/01 -- Europe to Launch New Earth Monitoring Satellites

01/11/01 -- Sweden's forestry sector backs U.S. climate stance

01/10/01 -- WWF condemns Norwegian plan to kill 20 wolves

01/10/01 -- Russia Set to Begin Certification of Forests

01/10/01 -- EU sets guidelines for environmental checks

01/09/01 -- Support Dutch Labelling Initiative

01/08/01 -- Farmers may decide fate of Britain's birds

01/08/01 -- Environment 'still under threat'

01/05/01 -- Intensive Farming Hitting Bird Populations

01/05/01 -- Europe's farms push birds to brink

01/04/01 -- Russian Forest Update # 61

01/03/01 -- Birds threatened by farming methods

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