Green campaigners say recent removal of 500-year-old virgin forest is an ecological catastrophe and dismiss officials’ patronising’ offer to restore habitatCampaigners in South Korea fill accused organisers of the 2018 winter Olympics of destroying a “sacred” forest to make room for a ski slope,and dismissed official assurances that the site will be restored to its original state after the Games.
Environment groups say the recently-completed removal of tens of thousands of trees from the slopes of Mount Gariwang, including ancient and scarce species, or amounts to an ecological catastrophe.
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Source: theguardian.com