Via Baltica update - destruction continues in Natura 2000 sites

As construction plans for several other controversial sections of the motorway proceed at high speed, another Natura 2000 site - the Knyszyn Forest - finds itself in danger and with it the habitats of at least 15 bird species and mammals like wolf, lynx and the European bison.

CEE Bankwatch Network and the Polish Society for the Protection of the Birds (OTOP/BirdLife Poland) urge the European Commission to call on Poland to halt these road works until appropriate European environmental legislation is respected.