WWF

Go green! This could be the slogan of the coming year. Listening to Uğur Bayar, chairman of WWF in Turkey, I finally saw a dim ray of hope about the bleak future of the environment in Turkey. The year 2015 might be the year to begin going greener.

Greek ministers have been warned not to follow Spain’s example by relaxing restrictions on building activity along the country’s coastline because this would have economic as well as environmental consequences.

Almost 200 years after they became locally extinct, a large group of European bison was relocated on Saturday to the Tarcu Mountain in the Carpathians in Western Romania, in one of the largest reintroductions of the endangered mammal in Europe.