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Ancient Trees in Budapest City Park in Peril

Proposed plans to renovate Budapest City Park will cut down 1,000 historic trees, destroy a fragile inner-city ecosystem and negatively impact the city’s air quality.
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Sheffield Shock

Close to 6,000 (mainly healthy) mature, large canopy street trees have been felled in Sheffield over the last five years as part of the 25 year, £2.2 billion (€2.5 billion) Public Finance I...

Skis Versus Trees

Protests have recently erupted in Sofia and other towns in Bulgaria due to the potential construction of new Slopes and Ski Lifts in Pirin National Park....

Construction of a metro station threatens 50 trees in Schaerbeek, Brussels

The Square François Riga in the Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek is not only one of the green and social hearts of the area, hosting a weekly market, but is also the home to 7 classified remarkabl...

Communication breakdown impacts ancient olive trees

Italy’s olive industry in the Puglia region has been in peril in recent years due to a bacterial pathogen called Xylella fastidiosa causing “Olive Quick Decline Syndrome” in olive tr...

Alarming illegal logging in Romania

In 2016, a report by Greenpeace alerted about the increasing number of illegal logging registered by the author...