Poland faces court over motorway through protected wetlands

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"The EU threatened legal action against Poland on Tuesday over the construction of a motorway that would destroy Europe's only remaining ancient peat land if built."

It constantly amazes me that people still want to build huge roads though pristine wilderness.  There was a campaign in the UK to stop people buying peat for their gardens as we were slowly destroying Ireland's peat bogs (http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/geography/bogs.html), now we have to protect them from roads too?

Despressing reading:  "The road would modify the water balance of the wetlands, cut across the migration routes of animals including big mammals like lynx and wolves... 100-year old pines [would be] chopped down..."

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog