VIA BALTICA - LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THREATENED HABITATS OF GLOBALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES?
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Via Baltica: death knell for globally threatened birds species and primeval forest?
A coalition of European and Polish conservation organisations is in the last stages of campaigning against a road development
threatening one of Europe's most important wildlife regions, in eastern Poland.
The development of the Via Baltica highway on its present planned route threatens the destruction of valuable wildlife and
habitats protected under European (and Polish) law. These include the most important European Union populations of two globally-threatened
birds: the Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga and Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola.
So far 150,000 Polish people have signed the petition urging the Polish government to halt work immediately on these damaging
projects and await the results of a Strategic Environmental Assessment. A parallel petition, due to be submitted with the
Polish signatures on 16 November 2006, has been signed to date by only just over 8,000 people from other countries.
It is essential that as many concerned people as possible from European countries and beyond sign the petition in the next
two weeks.
Whether you know of this still unspoilt area at first hand, are an expatriate in one of the many Polish communities worldwide,
or are simply concerned about unconsidered destruction of irreplaceable natural heritage you are urged to sign the petition
NOW - there may not be another chance.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
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