GuardianEnvironment

Two stories from a couple of shifts on Guardian Environment.

Wood illegally logged in Russia on its way to Finland. Photo: Greenpeace

Friday October 19 2007
Farmland birds slump to record low
A European-wide ruling to increase wheat supply could have a "devastating effect" on Britain's already threatened farmland birds, the RSPB warned today. The decision this summer by the EU to reduce "set-aside" land across Europe in a bid to increase next year's wheat crop by 10m tonnes will have a direct impact on populations of specialist farmland birds like the...

Thursday October 18 2007
Boots and Somerfield accused of 'trashing forests'
Two of Britain's biggest high street chains were today accused by Greenpeace of "trashing forests" after coming bottom of a "green tissue" league table. Boots and Somerfield came joint bottom of the poll, which measured the eco-friendliness of toilet roll, kitchen towel and tissues in British stores. The survey of 14 companies ranked firms A to F. Both Somerfield and Boots...

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