Environmentalists fear for Tatras
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Representatives of environmental organisations meeting in Bratislava on Thursday have suggested that government activities pose the biggest threat to Slovakia's High Tatra mountains.
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By Marcus Fairs  I am changing my travel plans this year. Alarmed by global warming, shocked by the imminent mass extinction of species and distraught at the environmental damage wreaked by mass tourism, I have decided to act before it is too late. Yes, carbon-neutral travel can wait.
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The future of nearly half of all European bird species is under threat because of man&#39;s impact on the environment, a report warns today.
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By Angel Riggs and Michael Overall, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aggravated farmers seem ready to put down their guns now that environmentalists have taken steps to protect crops from wild elk, officials said Monday.
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BUDAPEST, May 18 (IPS) - In a campaign that has won the support of Polish  public opinion and the European Union (EU),  environmental groups  are hoping to thwart the Polish cabinet's plan to construct  a highway  over the protected Rospuda valley.
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to liberate trade in some species at international talks starting today in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.
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WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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BUCHAREST: City authorities in Brasov in central Romania called on Monday for a campaign to wipe out the bear population in the surrounding mountains after a man was killed by a bear infected with rabies.
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With oil prices rising people are turning to wood heat, raising concerns about the environmental impact of some older devices that are being used.
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They say as many as 122 species may have become extinct since 1980 and a third of known amphibians face oblivion. Naturalists describe the creatures as sensitive indicators of the health of the wider environment.
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"Field research" projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get where they need to be, but not many can trump this summer's expedition to what may be the world's most inaccessible human fossil site, a cave in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
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Normally, transportation routes through wilderness are frowned on by conservationists. But a newly restored railroad in Madagascar is persuading locals not to slash and burn the surrounding landscape.
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BELGRADE, Dec. 9 (IPS) - The controversy over construction of a major  highway in western Romania that threatens to destroy the precious  Retezat and Domogled natural reserve parks has been put off at  least for now.
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Europeans may claim leadership in fighting global warming, but they get black marks from environmentalists for their fishing policy.
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BANGKOK : Conservationists are preparing for key battles at a global wildlife summit in Bangkok as officials warn that the battle to save endangered species is being hampered by lumbering bureaucracy, unwilling governments and a cash crisis.
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As newspaper readers, you are probably becoming familiar with the term "offsets." Environmentalists, loath to add noxious carbon gases into the atmosphere, offset their fossil fuel consumption by investing in renewable energy sources.